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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... Shaper his hero . He makes Grendel the narrator of his novel , and in that role the monster becomes in effect the Shaper's rival artist . Thus the battle between Grendel and Beowulf , a contest of strength , takes second place in ...
... Shaper his hero . He makes Grendel the narrator of his novel , and in that role the monster becomes in effect the Shaper's rival artist . Thus the battle between Grendel and Beowulf , a contest of strength , takes second place in ...
Pagina 40
... Shaper's epigone . But where the Shaper changes men , and for the better , Grendel does not . However ver- bally gifted , he lacks the power of a transforming imagination , as he himself dimly realizes when he slyly comments on his ...
... Shaper's epigone . But where the Shaper changes men , and for the better , Grendel does not . However ver- bally gifted , he lacks the power of a transforming imagination , as he himself dimly realizes when he slyly comments on his ...
Pagina 55
... Shaper , for heroes are made , not born . Gardner , then , advocates an art like the Shaper's , an art that im- proves as it delights , making its audience less crippled by the Angst , insecurity , cruelty , and disorder that diminish ...
... Shaper , for heroes are made , not born . Gardner , then , advocates an art like the Shaper's , an art that im- proves as it delights , making its audience less crippled by the Angst , insecurity , cruelty , and disorder that diminish ...
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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
Referințe la această carte
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 |