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 81
... story's publication ( which , incidentally , antedates such popular treatments of the subject as Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and David M. Rorvik's In His Image : The Cloning of a Man ) become increasingly plausible biol- ogy , a ...
... story's publication ( which , incidentally , antedates such popular treatments of the subject as Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and David M. Rorvik's In His Image : The Cloning of a Man ) become increasingly plausible biol- ogy , a ...
Pagina 88
... story after story and in book after book is one that registers the argument of existentialism yet opts still for optimism . Gardner concedes , in other words , that one must grasp the existentialist position before one can strive for a ...
... story after story and in book after book is one that registers the argument of existentialism yet opts still for optimism . Gardner concedes , in other words , that one must grasp the existentialist position before one can strive for a ...
Pagina 184
... story that concludes the collection by recapitulating , like stretto in a fugue , the subjects of the preceding stories . In this story art bears on death , insanity , war , and the desire for revenge . How , Gardner asks , can art help ...
... story that concludes the collection by recapitulating , like stretto in a fugue , the subjects of the preceding stories . In this story art bears on death , insanity , war , and the desire for revenge . How , Gardner asks , can art help ...
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 |