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 116
... suicide of his son Richard . But when he learns from a chance remark of Sally's that his son did not commit suicide merely to spite him , he realizes how groundless his lifelong misery has been . " Guilt . All this time he'd carried it ...
... suicide of his son Richard . But when he learns from a chance remark of Sally's that his son did not commit suicide merely to spite him , he realizes how groundless his lifelong misery has been . " Guilt . All this time he'd carried it ...
Pagina 140
... suicide and of what things can be done to help them . I shaped it in the form of a tale . . . . I think what it says about suicide is true . It's as serious a book as I ever wrote , though it's couched in jokes and tales . Everything I ...
... suicide and of what things can be done to help them . I shaped it in the form of a tale . . . . I think what it says about suicide is true . It's as serious a book as I ever wrote , though it's couched in jokes and tales . Everything I ...
Pagina 146
... Suicide Mountains also celebrates a subtle vision of art and its power to make life rich , to defeat Misery , and even to reform the vicious . Thus Prince Christopher , reciting his poem or playing his violin , cheers himself up and ...
... Suicide Mountains also celebrates a subtle vision of art and its power to make life rich , to defeat Misery , and even to reform the vicious . Thus Prince Christopher , reciting his poem or playing his violin , cheers himself up and ...
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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
Referințe la această carte
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 |