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 61
... wife , like Penelope with her weaving , stitches and un- stitches her sewing every day ; asleep , he becomes Dante's Ulys- ses , who abandons his wife to sail into the unknown , " to follow knowledge , " in the familiar Tennysonian ...
... wife , like Penelope with her weaving , stitches and un- stitches her sewing every day ; asleep , he becomes Dante's Ulys- ses , who abandons his wife to sail into the unknown , " to follow knowledge , " in the familiar Tennysonian ...
Pagina 62
... wife , however neglected , remains his bul- wark of love and fidelity . " Mrs. Clumly , " explained Gardner , " is the Beatrice of The Sunlight Dialogues . She guides everybody be- cause she loves . " " 15 Even more recognizably than it ...
... wife , however neglected , remains his bul- wark of love and fidelity . " Mrs. Clumly , " explained Gardner , " is the Beatrice of The Sunlight Dialogues . She guides everybody be- cause she loves . " " 15 Even more recognizably than it ...
Pagina 198
... wife but brother and sister — or rather they were both . They had had a child incestuously , and when the child fell ill the brother , unwilling to reveal their shame , had refused to call in medical help . When the child died , the ...
... wife but brother and sister — or rather they were both . They had had a child incestuously , and when the child fell ill the brother , unwilling to reveal their shame , had refused to call in medical help . When the child died , the ...
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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
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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 |