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The Wreckage of Agathon

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453203869
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Wreckage of Agathon written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV DIVDIVA wonderful exploration into the maturation process across the course of human life/divDIV /div/divDIVLaid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against the Spartan tyrant Lykourgos. Confined to a cell, the men produce extraordinary writings that illustrate the stories of their lives and give witness to Agathon’s deterioration and the growth of Peeker from a bashful young apprentice to a self-assured and passionate seer./divDIV /divDIVCaptivating and imaginative, The Wreckage of Agathon is a tribute to author John Gardner’s passion for ancient storytelling and those universal themes that span the course of all human civilization./divDIV /divDIV /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div

Understanding John Gardner

Author : John Michael Howell
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498723
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Gardner written by John Michael Howell and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the imagination of a popular & prolific American writer.

The Sunlight Dialogues

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216708
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Sunlight Dialogues written by John Gardner and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, compassionate, and often disturbing, this expansive novel is John Gardner's masterpiece.

Mickelsson's Ghosts

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216791
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Mickelsson's Ghosts written by and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.

The Book of Lost Books

Author : Stuart Kelly
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905252
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lost Books written by Stuart Kelly and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Lost Books is a book of stories involving kings, heretics, untimely interruptions and back room deals, falling tortoises and fairy princesses, train crashes and war atrocities, bravery, cowardice, rent boys, chamber maids, love, quests, puzzles and a crocodile. From Homer to Jane Austen, Shakespeare to Ernest Hemingway, this is an account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun. With academic shaggy dog stories, swashbuckling historical fables, wry ironies and imaginative fantasia, The Book of Lost Books is the perfect read for all bibliophiles. Hilarious, insightful, endlessly fascinating, sometimes shocking - The Book of Lost Books is a wonderfully quirky but utterly romantic saga of our love affair with books.

The Ancient World

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135457409
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.

In Hawthorne's Shadow

Author : Samuel Chase Coale
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185939
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book In Hawthorne's Shadow written by Samuel Chase Coale and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world is so sad and solemn," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, "that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves." From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, and John Updike. When viewed from this perspective, certain writers—particularly Cheever, Mailer, Oates, and Gardner—appear in a new and very different light, leading to a considerable reevaluation of their achievement and their place in American fiction. Mr. Coale's long interviews and conversations with John Cheever, John Gardner, William Styron, and others have provided insights and perspectives that make this book particularly valuable to students of contemporary American literature. Coale links contemporary writers to an on-going American romantic tradition, represented by such earlier authors as Melville, Harold Frederic, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers. He explores the distinctly Manichean matter of much American romance, linking it to America's Puritan past and to the almost schizophrenic dynamics of American culture in general. Finally, he reexamines the post-modernist writers in light of Hawthorne's "shadow" and shows that, however similar they may be in some ways, they differ remarkably from the previous American romantic tradition.

Conversations with John Gardner

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878054237
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with John Gardner written by John Gardner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.

The Art of John Gardner

Author : Per Winther
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424264
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Art of John Gardner written by Per Winther and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-10-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521307031
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature offers a compact and accessible guide to the major landmarks of American literature.

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521831792
Total Pages : 1241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.

Esquire

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Esquire written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wreckage of Philosophy

Author : Mimmo Cangiano
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504640
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Wreckage of Philosophy written by Mimmo Cangiano and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) was the first to analyze modernist philosophy in strict connection with social changes in mass society. Revealing how Michelstaedter was able to unveil the relations between pivotal early-modernist philosophies and social restructurings, The Wreckage of Philosophy examines the ongoing processes of "specialization," "rationalization," and "atomization." It points out how Michelstaedter connected the main theoretical expressions of modernism with the decisive social transformations of the early twentieth century, taking into consideration the key players of modernist philosophy, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Ernst Mach, and William James. By following Michelstaedter's analysis and strategies, The Wreckage of Philosophy focuses on several intertwined issues: the distinct philosophical positions within the modernist area; the connections between philosophy and modernist literature; the relations between intellectual positions and social upheavals; and the early-twentieth-century links among traditional philosophy, critique of language, and epistemology of technique.

On Moral Fiction

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480409219
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book On Moral Fiction written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fearless, illuminating” criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, “proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial” (Los Angeles Times). Novelist John Gardner’s thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: “True art is by its nature moral.” It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book’s first publication, the passion behind Gardner’s assertion has both provoked and inspired readers. In examining the work of his peers, Gardner analyzes what has gone wrong, in his view, in modern art and literature, and how shortcomings in artistic criticism have contributed to the problem. He develops his argument by showing how artists and critics can reintroduce morality and substance to their work to improve society and cultivate our morality. On Moral Fiction is an essential read in which Gardner presents his thoughtfully developed criteria for the elements he believes are essential to art and its creation. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.

John Gardner

Author : Barry Silesky
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127595
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book John Gardner written by Barry Silesky and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade--from 1973 to 1982--John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks. Once in the limelight, he picked public fights with his peers, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer among them, and wrote five more bestsellers. Gardner's personal life was as chaotic as his writing life was prolific. At twenty, he married his cousin Joan, and after a long marriage that was both passionate and violent, left her for Liz Rosenberg, a student. Only a few years later, he left Rosenberg for another student, Susan Thornton. Famous for disregarding his own safety, he rode his motorcycle at crazy speeds, incurred countless concussions, and once broke both of his arms. He survived what was diagnosed as terminal colon cancer only to resume his prodigious drinking and to die in a motorcycle accident at age forty-nine, a week before his third wedding. Biographer Barry Silesky captures John Gardner's fabulously contradictory genius and his capacity to both dazzle and infuriate. He portrays Gardner as a man of unrestrained energy and blatant contempt for convention and also as a man whose charisma drew students and devoted followers wherever he went. Amazingly, Gardner published twenty-nine books in all, including eleven fiction titles, a book-length epic poem, six books of medieval criticism, and a major biography. Twenty-one years after his death, his On Moral Fiction and The Art Of Fiction are still read and debated in MFA programs across the country. This is a full-scale biography of a writer who was, for ten years, almost bigger than life. It lives up to its subject magnificently.

October Light

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145320346X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book October Light written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: A “dazzling” novel about the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings (Los Angeles Times). James is a cantankerous and conservative seventy-two-year-old who has spent his life caring for the animals on his farm. His widowed older sister, Sally, has strong liberal ideals and a propensity for debate. When Sally’s bankruptcy forces her to move in with her brother, their lifelong feud quickly escalates—and Sally becomes a prisoner in her own room with nothing to survive on but apples and a trashy novel about marijuana smugglers. As Sally becomes immersed in the book, the story envelops the narrative of the siblings’ dysfunctional relationship, and Gardner explores a wide array of themes from human autonomy to self-definition to political extremism. The result is a tour de force of Gardner’s unique literary style at the height of his protean creative powers. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.

Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes

Author : Jill B. Gidmark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507700
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes written by Jill B. Gidmark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea and Great Lakes have inspired American authors from colonial times to the present to produce enduring literary works. This reference is a comprehensive survey of American sea literature. The scope of the encyclopedia ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama. The book also acknowledges how literature gives rise to adaptations and resonances in music and film and includes coverage of nonliterary topics that have nonetheless shaped American literature of the sea and Great Lakes. The alphabetical arrangement of the reference facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information. While the encyclopedia includes entries for white male canonical writers such as Herman Melville and Jack London, it also gives considerable attention to women at sea and to ethnically diverse authors, works, and themes. The volume concludes with a chronology and a list of works for further reading.