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 83
... give in to temp- tation in the name of a higher good . Such a decision wrenches the soul , because the temptation to let the end justify the means may be merely the most insidious device of Old Nick to undermine a monk's disciplined ...
... give in to temp- tation in the name of a higher good . Such a decision wrenches the soul , because the temptation to let the end justify the means may be merely the most insidious device of Old Nick to undermine a monk's disciplined ...
Pagina 183
... give up his art ( like Joan Orrick , the collection's other lapsed artist ) , he can only drift miserably until the accumulated weight of his sorrows carries him under . His participation in a Welsh sing - apparently for the first time ...
... give up his art ( like Joan Orrick , the collection's other lapsed artist ) , he can only drift miserably until the accumulated weight of his sorrows carries him under . His participation in a Welsh sing - apparently for the first time ...
Pagina 186
... gives the reader to understand that since the events in the story he has himself experienced the various primal lessons of war , that more elaborate form of the hunt . He has sur- vived mentally and emotionally , one feels , largely as ...
... gives the reader to understand that since the events in the story he has himself experienced the various primal lessons of war , that more elaborate form of the hunt . He has sur- vived mentally and emotionally , one feels , largely as ...
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
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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 |