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 13
... existence necessarily dooms all attempts at discovering or creating a morality more secure than that espoused by the middle class and despised by intellectuals . In the absence of absolute religious , philosophical , or scientific ...
... existence necessarily dooms all attempts at discovering or creating a morality more secure than that espoused by the middle class and despised by intellectuals . In the absence of absolute religious , philosophical , or scientific ...
Pagina 53
... existence run counter to the way the bard represents them . Angry to see how " lies ” allow man to flourish , Grendel assumes the task of reminding humanity- through his art as well as his predations - of the elemental and brutal ...
... existence run counter to the way the bard represents them . Angry to see how " lies ” allow man to flourish , Grendel assumes the task of reminding humanity- through his art as well as his predations - of the elemental and brutal ...
Pagina 99
... existence itself . His tale , in fact , is grounded in metaphysics ; at sea in a craft he cannot pilot , he blithely reflects : " In landlessness alone lies the highest truth , shoreless , as indefi- nite as God ! " ( p . 212 ) . This ...
... existence itself . His tale , in fact , is grounded in metaphysics ; at sea in a craft he cannot pilot , he blithely reflects : " In landlessness alone lies the highest truth , shoreless , as indefi- nite as God ! " ( p . 212 ) . This ...
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 |