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 26
... ultimately bracing - sublime in the Burkean sense . Yet the bird - filled sky , Chandler's memento mori , need not be viewed exclusively as a sublimely terrifying image . The earliest appearance of this motif in the book is a casual ...
... ultimately bracing - sublime in the Burkean sense . Yet the bird - filled sky , Chandler's memento mori , need not be viewed exclusively as a sublimely terrifying image . The earliest appearance of this motif in the book is a casual ...
Pagina 122
... ultimately America itself , beset by disaffected minorities , the third world , the intellectual and moral depredations of the mass media , and com- placent democrats spending the country into bankruptcy . By the end of the novel ...
... ultimately America itself , beset by disaffected minorities , the third world , the intellectual and moral depredations of the mass media , and com- placent democrats spending the country into bankruptcy . By the end of the novel ...
Pagina 152
... ultimately responsible - unless he actively promotes it — is death . But against death man has an ally : the powerful instinct by which life preserves and perpetuates itself . The Devil senses this vital power as Lars - Goren stalks him ...
... ultimately responsible - unless he actively promotes it — is death . But against death man has an ally : the powerful instinct by which life preserves and perpetuates itself . The Devil senses this vital power as Lars - Goren stalks him ...
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 |