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 65
... takes place ap- propriately enough in a cemetery crypt , where the Sunlight Man tells Clumly about Gilgamesh , the Babylonian epic whose descrip- tion sounds like that of The Sunlight Dialogues : “ A technique made up of careful ...
... takes place ap- propriately enough in a cemetery crypt , where the Sunlight Man tells Clumly about Gilgamesh , the Babylonian epic whose descrip- tion sounds like that of The Sunlight Dialogues : “ A technique made up of careful ...
Pagina 99
... take painful lessons in distinguishing the real from the ideal and the illusory . He learns not only about the chicanery ... takes an interest in ethics , poli- tics , and aesthetics , and the reader will discover corresponding symbolic ...
... take painful lessons in distinguishing the real from the ideal and the illusory . He learns not only about the chicanery ... takes an interest in ethics , poli- tics , and aesthetics , and the reader will discover corresponding symbolic ...
Pagina 124
... takes great comfort in contemplating the unfailing redemption of winter by spring , of death by the following cycle of life . He also takes advantage of his friend's embarrassed docility ( for James's drunken rampage the night of the ...
... takes great comfort in contemplating the unfailing redemption of winter by spring , of death by the following cycle of life . He also takes advantage of his friend's embarrassed docility ( for James's drunken rampage the night of the ...
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 |