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 63
... reality and freedom . Explored in terms of two sharply contrasting cultures , Hebrew and Babylo- nian , with side glances at political , social , and cultural assump- tions in contemporary America , these themes bear directly on the ...
... reality and freedom . Explored in terms of two sharply contrasting cultures , Hebrew and Babylo- nian , with side glances at political , social , and cultural assump- tions in contemporary America , these themes bear directly on the ...
Pagina 74
... reality , " Chief Clumly is well on his way to sympathizing with the Sunlight Man . In pursuing the Sunlight Man , Clumly himself grapples with es- sential reality — maddeningly elusive ( and illusive ) yet also , when finally ...
... reality , " Chief Clumly is well on his way to sympathizing with the Sunlight Man . In pursuing the Sunlight Man , Clumly himself grapples with es- sential reality — maddeningly elusive ( and illusive ) yet also , when finally ...
Pagina 75
... reality can be terrible indeed , but he also 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 ...
... reality can be terrible indeed , but he also 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 ...
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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
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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 |