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 34
... reader participates in Henry's transition from pariah to pastor through Gardner's han- dling of point of view . The ... reader to move with Henry Soames and his neighbors from isolation to community . Thus the book opens with a fourteen ...
... reader participates in Henry's transition from pariah to pastor through Gardner's han- dling of point of view . The ... reader to move with Henry Soames and his neighbors from isolation to community . Thus the book opens with a fourteen ...
Pagina 130
... reader encounters fanciful versions of what the adult reader encounters directly : dark existential truths , minatory realities , lachrymae rerum . Only in In the Suicide Mountains must the young reader grapple with adult subject matter ...
... reader encounters fanciful versions of what the adult reader encounters directly : dark existential truths , minatory realities , lachrymae rerum . Only in In the Suicide Mountains must the young reader grapple with adult subject matter ...
Pagina 150
... reader depends on Professor Winesap , who tries to report his conversations with old Agaard faithfully ; he tries , that is , to write an accurate " history " of his visit . But his account provides instead an object lesson in the ...
... reader depends on Professor Winesap , who tries to report his conversations with old Agaard faithfully ; he tries , that is , to write an accurate " history " of his visit . But his account provides instead an object lesson in the ...
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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
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 |