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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... faith . The sculptor had " faith in his hands ” and “ in his friends , " and he had touched the writer , John Gardner , with his vision : " I saw what he saw : the grass and ourselves and the stars one work . " But though that last word ...
... faith . The sculptor had " faith in his hands ” and “ in his friends , " and he had touched the writer , John Gardner , with his vision : " I saw what he saw : the grass and ourselves and the stars one work . " But though that last word ...
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... faith impervious to the theory of evo- lution , the second law of thermodynamics , Heisenberg's uncer- tainty principle , and the death of God . Gardner refused to despair . The more terrible the revelations of science , the greater the ...
... faith impervious to the theory of evo- lution , the second law of thermodynamics , Heisenberg's uncer- tainty principle , and the death of God . Gardner refused to despair . The more terrible the revelations of science , the greater the ...
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... faith " not at odds with experience . Jonathan Upchurch has lost one kind of faith , and he is not alone . Mr. Knight , the first mate , has seen his faith eroded by science ; he worries " that the world's mechanical " ( p . 290 ) ...
... faith " not at odds with experience . Jonathan Upchurch has lost one kind of faith , and he is not alone . Mr. Knight , the first mate , has seen his faith eroded by science ; he worries " that the world's mechanical " ( p . 290 ) ...
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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
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 |