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 53
... truth . The world has changed , and in a sense we are all heirs to despair . Bet- ter to face this and tell the truth , however dismal . " 16 But when art- ists devote themselves , like Grendel , to reminding us of the ulti- mate ...
... truth . The world has changed , and in a sense we are all heirs to despair . Bet- ter to face this and tell the truth , however dismal . " 16 But when art- ists devote themselves , like Grendel , to reminding us of the ulti- mate ...
Pagina 99
... truth in all its complexity . Gardner engages that complexity impressively in the short novel that gives its title to the King's Indian collection . The author of this " celebration of all literature and life " ( p . 316 ) on occasion ...
... truth in all its complexity . Gardner engages that complexity impressively in the short novel that gives its title to the King's Indian collection . The author of this " celebration of all literature and life " ( p . 316 ) on occasion ...
Pagina 106
... truth about Miranda , Jonathan discovers the truth about the ship in which they sail , its robot captain , the oracular Jeremiah ( named , perhaps , for Jeremiah Reynolds , who jogged the imaginations of both Poe and Melville ) , and ...
... truth about Miranda , Jonathan discovers the truth about the ship in which they sail , its robot captain , the oracular Jeremiah ( named , perhaps , for Jeremiah Reynolds , who jogged the imaginations of both Poe and Melville ) , and ...
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 |