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 38
... Grendel's defeat ought properly to go to the Shaper , not to the beefy and humorless Beowulf . Proof against the small - scale heroics of the territorial im- perative , Grendel might have continued to harass the Scyldings indefinitely ...
... Grendel's defeat ought properly to go to the Shaper , not to the beefy and humorless Beowulf . Proof against the small - scale heroics of the territorial im- perative , Grendel might have continued to harass the Scyldings indefinitely ...
Pagina 50
... Grendel , or at least Grendel's arm , with the theories of Sir James George Frazer con- cerning the legendary Golden Bough , the talisman required by Aeneas to visit — and return from — the ... Grendel and Grendel - 50 Arches and Light.
... Grendel , or at least Grendel's arm , with the theories of Sir James George Frazer con- cerning the legendary Golden Bough , the talisman required by Aeneas to visit — and return from — the ... Grendel and Grendel - 50 Arches and Light.
Pagina 51
... Grendel's discoverers . The joke be- hind this amusingly anachronistic remark is that the men , too , are in a period of transition . If to the Scyldings Grendel remains always the arch - enemy , to the reader he seems at times more ...
... Grendel's discoverers . The joke be- hind this amusingly anachronistic remark is that the men , too , are in a period of transition . If to the Scyldings Grendel remains always the arch - enemy , to the reader he seems at times more ...
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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 |