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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... describes his novel somewhat clumsily ( " Through the juxtaposition of slightly or sharply distorted internal visions of reality , normative vision becomes dependent on character rela- tionships and agreement of various distortions ...
... describes his novel somewhat clumsily ( " Through the juxtaposition of slightly or sharply distorted internal visions of reality , normative vision becomes dependent on character rela- tionships and agreement of various distortions ...
Pagina 44
... describes ; it glorifies the an- cient , heroic ideals espoused by the pagan ancestors of its Chris- tian audience at the same time that it reveals how little those ideals mean without the rationale provided by Christian faith . With ...
... describes ; it glorifies the an- cient , heroic ideals espoused by the pagan ancestors of its Chris- tian audience at the same time that it reveals how little those ideals mean without the rationale provided by Christian faith . With ...
Pagina 153
... describes those emblems of thrusting nature , the ram and the goat . Lars - Goren , like Beowulf , becomes an in- strument of the life - force that triumphs over death . Lars - Goren draws his strength in large measure from his pas ...
... describes those emblems of thrusting nature , the ram and the goat . Lars - Goren , like Beowulf , becomes an in- strument of the life - force that triumphs over death . Lars - Goren draws his strength in large measure from his pas ...
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 |