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 122
... James and Sally , however well - informed , can be . The clergymen provide Gardner with an important link between the two levels of his novel . Oc- cupying a middle ground between the frame story and Smugglers , they make clearer the ...
... James and Sally , however well - informed , can be . The clergymen provide Gardner with an important link between the two levels of his novel . Oc- cupying a middle ground between the frame story and Smugglers , they make clearer the ...
Pagina 124
... James and Sally , both affected by the imminent death of their friend Ed Thomas , terminate their war as much out of the realization that their own remaining time ought not to be squandered in bickering as out of any other form of ...
... James and Sally , both affected by the imminent death of their friend Ed Thomas , terminate their war as much out of the realization that their own remaining time ought not to be squandered in bickering as out of any other form of ...
Pagina 125
... James Page encounters at the end . Bears , the au- thor has noted , are sometimes thought to be “ visitors from an- other world " ( p . 13 ) , indeed , from " the underworld " ( p . 303 ) . James , who " believed that his ghosts ...
... James Page encounters at the end . Bears , the au- thor has noted , are sometimes thought to be “ visitors from an- other world " ( p . 13 ) , indeed , from " the underworld " ( p . 303 ) . James , who " believed that his ghosts ...
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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 |