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 152
... evil . Freddy's Devil sows all of these , not to mention distrust , dishonesty , guilt , and doubt , so that spiritual certitude on the one hand , and political order and freedom on the other , seem impossible . Yet Sweden attains the ...
... evil . Freddy's Devil sows all of these , not to mention distrust , dishonesty , guilt , and doubt , so that spiritual certitude on the one hand , and political order and freedom on the other , seem impossible . Yet Sweden attains the ...
Pagina 164
... evil . The struggle with evil - now heroic , now cowardly — gener- ates the history that is the ultimate concern of Freddy's Book . If the penultimate paragraph , which hints at the imminence of war with Russia , refers to our age as ...
... evil . The struggle with evil - now heroic , now cowardly — gener- ates the history that is the ultimate concern of Freddy's Book . If the penultimate paragraph , which hints at the imminence of war with Russia , refers to our age as ...
Pagina 184
... evil - tattooed on Deller's arm , and thus Deller's story concerns the touch - and - go process by which the practice of his art enables him to tame the dragon , to make it a symbol , as in Chinese mythology , of evil subdued and ...
... evil - tattooed on Deller's arm , and thus Deller's story concerns the touch - and - go process by which the practice of his art enables him to tame the dragon , to make it a symbol , as in Chinese mythology , of evil subdued and ...
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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 |