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 116
... Guilt . All this time he'd carried it , a burden that had bent his whole life double and when he caught it and held it in his two hands and opened them , there was nothing there . " Yet beyond guilt — and hardly comforting - is ...
... Guilt . All this time he'd carried it , a burden that had bent his whole life double and when he caught it and held it in his two hands and opened them , there was nothing there . " Yet beyond guilt — and hardly comforting - is ...
Pagina 168
... guilt seems a pure distillate of the guilt that figures so prominently in Gardner's fiction . The struggle with guilt in " The Old Men , " in Nickel Mountain , in October Light , in Freddy's Book , and in Mickelsson's Ghosts would seem ...
... guilt seems a pure distillate of the guilt that figures so prominently in Gardner's fiction . The struggle with guilt in " The Old Men , " in Nickel Mountain , in October Light , in Freddy's Book , and in Mickelsson's Ghosts would seem ...
Pagina 169
... guilt and redemption . The story concerns guilt and redemption in the conventional re- ligious sense only tangentially , in the struggle of Jack's father and mother to retain their faith . Jack , however , drifts towards an ag ...
... guilt and redemption . The story concerns guilt and redemption in the conventional re- ligious sense only tangentially , in the struggle of Jack's father and mother to retain their faith . Jack , however , drifts towards an ag ...
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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 |