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 35
... death Henry slips into anomie ) , but in his attention to the customers at the diner , to un- fortunate neighbors like Simon Bale , and to the community - wide anxiety about the continuing drought , the author turns away from individual ...
... death Henry slips into anomie ) , but in his attention to the customers at the diner , to un- fortunate neighbors like Simon Bale , and to the community - wide anxiety about the continuing drought , the author turns away from individual ...
Pagina 36
... death are accepted as part of the same process that brings seasons and crops . Henry is alone , as the limited point of view emphasizes , but he is not alien- ated . With his son beside him , curious about dead rabbits and opened graves ...
... death are accepted as part of the same process that brings seasons and crops . Henry is alone , as the limited point of view emphasizes , but he is not alien- ated . With his son beside him , curious about dead rabbits and opened graves ...
Pagina 49
... death . " The image clings to my mind like a growth . I sense some riddle in it " ( p . 127 ) . But the inevitable destruction of Heorot and the world it symbol- izes does not invalidate the affirmation Gardner puts into the mouth of ...
... death . " The image clings to my mind like a growth . I sense some riddle in it " ( p . 127 ) . But the inevitable destruction of Heorot and the world it symbol- izes does not invalidate the affirmation Gardner puts into the mouth of ...
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
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 |