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 67
... remains the trickster ( Gardner displaces the sal- vational development to Beowulf and the Shaper ) , but the reader and the town of Batavia encounter the Sunlight Man just at the mo- ment that he begins the transition from trickster to ...
... remains the trickster ( Gardner displaces the sal- vational development to Beowulf and the Shaper ) , but the reader and the town of Batavia encounter the Sunlight Man just at the mo- ment that he begins the transition from trickster to ...
Pagina 150
... remains confused about whether he ought to endorse Winesap's " soft " his- tory — psychoanalyzing historical figures and interpreting produc- tions of the popular mind like myths and fairy tales - or Agaard's " hard " history of facts ...
... remains confused about whether he ought to endorse Winesap's " soft " his- tory — psychoanalyzing historical figures and interpreting produc- tions of the popular mind like myths and fairy tales - or Agaard's " hard " history of facts ...
Pagina 152
... remains the same — that which , in the affairs of men , leads to strife , bloodshed , faction , war , and all the other things that make life itself seem evil . Freddy's Devil sows all of these , not to mention distrust , dishonesty ...
... remains the same — that which , in the affairs of men , leads to strife , bloodshed , faction , war , and all the other things that make life itself seem evil . Freddy's Devil sows all of these , not to mention distrust , dishonesty ...
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 |