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 185
... realizes that his fellow Ameri- cans understand what goes on in a slaughterhouse no more than they understand what goes on in Vietnam : " How do you feel about the packaged , drugged - up meat at your supermarket , or airplanes dropping ...
... realizes that his fellow Ameri- cans understand what goes on in a slaughterhouse no more than they understand what goes on in Vietnam : " How do you feel about the packaged , drugged - up meat at your supermarket , or airplanes dropping ...
Pagina 190
... realizes , he resembles the great German philosopher in a number of ways . In addition to sharing a profession , both men descend from Lutheran ministers ; hence they share an obsession with Martin Luther , chief architect of protestant ...
... realizes , he resembles the great German philosopher in a number of ways . In addition to sharing a profession , both men descend from Lutheran ministers ; hence they share an obsession with Martin Luther , chief architect of protestant ...
Pagina 197
... realizes that such tergiversation ( to use the Kierkegaardian word ) is profoundly de- bilitating . The same tendency to postpone resolution , to vacillate between equally cogent alternatives , is seen in Mickelsson's equiv- ocal stance ...
... realizes that such tergiversation ( to use the Kierkegaardian word ) is profoundly de- bilitating . The same tendency to postpone resolution , to vacillate between equally cogent alternatives , is seen in Mickelsson's equiv- ocal stance ...
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 |