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 67
... turn himself in . In letting his quarry go , Clumly does not act , as the Sunlight Man had suggested in the third dialogue , " on the side of the uni- verse . " Rather he acts on the side of a less grandiose ethic of per- sonal ...
... turn himself in . In letting his quarry go , Clumly does not act , as the Sunlight Man had suggested in the third dialogue , " on the side of the uni- verse . " Rather he acts on the side of a less grandiose ethic of per- sonal ...
Pagina 75
... Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key , each in his prison Thinking of the key , each confirms a prison The lines echo Ugolino , in Dante's Inferno , who was imprisoned and starved in a tower that for Eliot ...
... Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key , each in his prison Thinking of the key , each confirms a prison The lines echo Ugolino , in Dante's Inferno , who was imprisoned and starved in a tower that for Eliot ...
Pagina 145
... turn , but the good brother defeats him twice , delivering himself and his brother from the clutches of this nasty fellow . The story can be taken as a lesson that men should , like the dwarf , the prince , and the blacksmith's daughter ...
... turn , but the good brother defeats him twice , delivering himself and his brother from the clutches of this nasty fellow . The story can be taken as a lesson that men should , like the dwarf , the prince , and the blacksmith's daughter ...
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 |