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 70
... American Eden , its patriarch the American Adam . The Old Con- gressman had “ embodied all that was good " ( p . 461 ) , as his son Will tells a hitchhiker named Freeman ( another emblematic pres- ence in the American landscape ) . He ...
... American Eden , its patriarch the American Adam . The Old Con- gressman had “ embodied all that was good " ( p . 461 ) , as his son Will tells a hitchhiker named Freeman ( another emblematic pres- ence in the American landscape ) . He ...
Pagina 101
... American ship of state . Gardner's insistent , Whitmanesque capitalization of “ Cap- tain " elevates the vessel's master to the status of founding father or president ( though surely not so credulous as Dirge , a number of the founding ...
... American ship of state . Gardner's insistent , Whitmanesque capitalization of “ Cap- tain " elevates the vessel's master to the status of founding father or president ( though surely not so credulous as Dirge , a number of the founding ...
Pagina 102
... American nation . The mutiny , for example , functions both historically and prophetically . As a symbolic version of the American Civil War , it results in the free- ing of the slaves but also in further bloodshed , further confusion ...
... American nation . The mutiny , for example , functions both historically and prophetically . As a symbolic version of the American Civil War , it results in the free- ing of the slaves but also in further bloodshed , further confusion ...
Cuprins
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 |