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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... least in part , by the artist in the process of uncovering it . Those who realize their ability and responsibility to reshape the world are the moral art- ists , and often they must struggle directly or indirectly with im- moral artists ...
... least in part , by the artist in the process of uncovering it . Those who realize their ability and responsibility to reshape the world are the moral art- ists , and often they must struggle directly or indirectly with im- moral artists ...
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... least appealing appetites at the same time that he is an em- bodiment of the entire nonhuman universe , conceived as sentient and single - mindedly malevolent . If the malignity of the universe is something conferred on it by the human ...
... least appealing appetites at the same time that he is an em- bodiment of the entire nonhuman universe , conceived as sentient and single - mindedly malevolent . If the malignity of the universe is something conferred on it by the human ...
Pagina 144
... least a touch of decent conscience . Imitate anything long enough — gaze at anything long enough with a careful eye — and you have a tendency to become it , or at least a tendency to respect it . " The speaker illustrates his point with ...
... least a touch of decent conscience . Imitate anything long enough — gaze at anything long enough with a careful eye — and you have a tendency to become it , or at least a tendency to respect it . " The speaker illustrates his point with ...
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 |