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 75
... learns the complex reality of a fellow human being . Sitting in the police car before his speech to the Dairyman's League , he looks into the Grange and sees fire . The delusion of flames is one of the Sunlight Man's afflictions , and ...
... learns the complex reality of a fellow human being . Sitting in the police car before his speech to the Dairyman's League , he looks into the Grange and sees fire . The delusion of flames is one of the Sunlight Man's afflictions , and ...
Pagina 103
... learns to honor his fellow creatures ( the albatross , the water - snakes ) , Upchurch learns to respect the harpooner James Ngugi and his black brethren . When a character refers to the harpooner as " Nigger Jim " ( p . 318 ) , we ...
... learns to honor his fellow creatures ( the albatross , the water - snakes ) , Upchurch learns to respect the harpooner James Ngugi and his black brethren . When a character refers to the harpooner as " Nigger Jim " ( p . 318 ) , we ...
Pagina 170
... learns from him that one can rise above personal misfortune . He learns , too , that art can defeat despair and redeem life . His discovery at the end that he must not expect to attain the mastery of his teacher , though ostensibly a ...
... learns from him that one can rise above personal misfortune . He learns , too , that art can defeat despair and redeem life . His discovery at the end that he must not expect to attain the mastery of his teacher , though ostensibly a ...
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 |