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 89
... present time , the author contemplates the portrait of Lucy and reflects that though his daughter will grow up to be a beautiful woman , " time will blast her , her flesh will sag like an elderly dog's " ( p . 121 ) . But however ...
... present time , the author contemplates the portrait of Lucy and reflects that though his daughter will grow up to be a beautiful woman , " time will blast her , her flesh will sag like an elderly dog's " ( p . 121 ) . But however ...
Pagina 136
... present , especially if one must lie and cheat into the bargain . Whatever the present danger , better to opt for the known good than to gamble it on a problematic resolution of an immediate problem . Three of the characters in the ...
... present , especially if one must lie and cheat into the bargain . Whatever the present danger , better to opt for the known good than to gamble it on a problematic resolution of an immediate problem . Three of the characters in the ...
Pagina 172
... present anomie . The story ends , ironically , in a stillness that has little in common with aesthetic stasis . With Mar- tin asleep beside her , Joan lies waiting for her Demerol to take effect , drifting on a tide stronger than any ...
... present anomie . The story ends , ironically , in a stillness that has little in common with aesthetic stasis . With Mar- tin asleep beside her , Joan lies waiting for her Demerol to take effect , drifting on a tide stronger than any ...
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 |