Arches & Light: The Fiction of John GardnerSouthern Illinois University Press, 1983 - 227 pagini Arches and Light demonstrates the depth and complexity of Gardner's fiction, as well as his utterly consistent moral vision. Cowart argues that Gardner's career, from The Resurrection to Mickelsson's Ghosts, reveals an incremental mastery and a remarkable singleness of purpose. |
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Pagina 28
... Agathon and The Beggar's Opera posit some degree of identity between the man in office and the man in jail , and while Agathon's name means " the good , " he and his antagonist are not melodramatic illustrations of the Lowellian formula ...
... Agathon and The Beggar's Opera posit some degree of identity between the man in office and the man in jail , and while Agathon's name means " the good , " he and his antagonist are not melodramatic illustrations of the Lowellian formula ...
Pagina 29
... Agathon the seer and Demodokos the apprentice - seer or " peeker " are not exactly master and disciple , since Peeker is for the most part contemptuous and disloyal , though towards the end both he and the reader come to see the roguish ...
... Agathon the seer and Demodokos the apprentice - seer or " peeker " are not exactly master and disciple , since Peeker is for the most part contemptuous and disloyal , though towards the end both he and the reader come to see the roguish ...
Pagina 31
... Agathon is ultimately about political antinomies that are universal . These antinomies are also universally destructive , at least in the extreme forms in which they figure in the book , and Gardner presents them in terms of what they ...
... Agathon is ultimately about political antinomies that are universal . These antinomies are also universally destructive , at least in the extreme forms in which they figure in the book , and Gardner presents them in terms of what they ...
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Gardners Early Pastoral Novels | 21 |
Grendel | 38 |
The Sunlight Dialogues | 57 |
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affirmation allegory American Art of Living becomes Bellamy Beowulf Brother Ivo Chandler chapter character Christ Christian Clumly darkness David Bellamy dead death despair Devil dragon entropy evil existential faith father Flint frame story Freddy Freddy's Book Gard Grendel Gudgekin guilt Gustav Hereafter cited parenthetically hero heroic hints human ideal James James Page John Barth John Gardner John Napper kind King King's Indian Knopf Lars-Goren less literary Luther Lykourgos madness man's Mickelsson Mickelsson's Ghosts modern monster Moral Fiction narrative narrator Nicholas Vergette Nickel Mountain Nimram novel October Light pastoral philosophical poem political princess protagonist Queen Louisa reader reality realizes Redemption Resurrection Sally says Scyldings seems Shaper six-fingered Smugglers spiritual story story's Suicide Mountains Sunlight Dialogues symbol Taggert Hodge takes tale theme things Thistle Girl tion truth ultimately Univ universe Upchurch Vlemk Vortrab wife Winesap witch Wreckage of Agathon York
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In Hawthorne's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer Samuel Coale Vizualizare fragmente - 1985 |
A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner Ronald Grant Nutter Vizualizare fragmente - 1997 |