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 77
... darkness that for- ever threatens to swallow man's precarious enclaves of love , se- curity , and order . He concedes the most to this darkness in the stories of " The Midnight Reader . " The title of this section hints at the subject ...
... darkness that for- ever threatens to swallow man's precarious enclaves of love , se- curity , and order . He concedes the most to this darkness in the stories of " The Midnight Reader . " The title of this section hints at the subject ...
Pagina 84
... darkness , of not hedging himself round with “ rules , " habits of mind that make his art easy — and false . Thus ... darkness that Brother Nicholas claims is final truth , Brother Ivo has become a figure of the hero , the savior who ...
... darkness , of not hedging himself round with “ rules , " habits of mind that make his art easy — and false . Thus ... darkness that Brother Nicholas claims is final truth , Brother Ivo has become a figure of the hero , the savior who ...
Pagina 90
... darkness . His experience recapitulates the aes- thetic development of " The Midnight Reader . " Like Brother Ivo , he has faced the darkness and come back with a new strength : He'd gone to the pit , in those Paris paintings , fighting ...
... darkness . His experience recapitulates the aes- thetic development of " The Midnight Reader . " Like Brother Ivo , he has faced the darkness and come back with a new strength : He'd gone to the pit , in those Paris paintings , fighting ...
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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 |