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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... represents something anarchic at the very heart of things . Gardner engaged in a career - long quest for fictive strategies to gainsay this horror . He did not claim to have discovered ulti- mately satisfying answers , but he always ...
... represents something anarchic at the very heart of things . Gardner engaged in a career - long quest for fictive strategies to gainsay this horror . He did not claim to have discovered ulti- mately satisfying answers , but he always ...
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... represents something potentially as destructive as that which Lykourgos represents . Both , signifi- cantly , are crippled : Lykourgos is one - eyed , Agathon is lame . The physical impairment is symbolic of flaws in both their world ...
... represents something potentially as destructive as that which Lykourgos represents . Both , signifi- cantly , are crippled : Lykourgos is one - eyed , Agathon is lame . The physical impairment is symbolic of flaws in both their world ...
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... represents woman . In The Romance of the Rose , a pri- mary text for every Chaucerian , the hero desires a symbolic rose located at the heart of a garden patrolled by allegorical person- ages - Fair Welcome , Delight , Evil Tongue ...
... represents woman . In The Romance of the Rose , a pri- mary text for every Chaucerian , the hero desires a symbolic rose located at the heart of a garden patrolled by allegorical person- ages - Fair Welcome , Delight , Evil Tongue ...
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 |