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 18
... literary and political conservatism is also mistaken . The political conservatism seen in the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority is three parts blind , unre- flective , pinch - mouthed prejudice to every one of tested ...
... literary and political conservatism is also mistaken . The political conservatism seen in the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority is three parts blind , unre- flective , pinch - mouthed prejudice to every one of tested ...
Pagina 19
... literary pantheon . But to say as much is not to concede that their high priest is an aesthetic reactionary . If Gardner looked to the past , he did so only to shape a criticism that could with greater authority look to the future . Sir ...
... literary pantheon . But to say as much is not to concede that their high priest is an aesthetic reactionary . If Gardner looked to the past , he did so only to shape a criticism that could with greater authority look to the future . Sir ...
Pagina 104
... literary allusions be- cause its author , like Eliot in The Waste Land , seeks to remind his reader of the extent to which the literary past breathes through the literary present . Only the work of major artists finds its way into ...
... literary allusions be- cause its author , like Eliot in The Waste Land , seeks to remind his reader of the extent to which the literary past breathes through the literary present . Only the work of major artists finds its way into ...
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 |