John Gardner, critical perspectives / edited by Robert A. Morace and Kathryn VanSpanckeren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Morace, Robert A.

VanSpanckeren, Kathryn.

Series:

Crosscurrents/modern critiques. New series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardner, John, 1933-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

Gardner, John.

Gardner, John, 1933-1982.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv, 171 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1982]

Contents:

Et in Arcadia ego : Gardner's early pastoral novels / David Cowart

"Into the farther darkness" : the Manichaean pastoralism of John Gardner / Samuel Coale

A Babylonian in Batavia : Mesopotamian literature and lore in the Sunlight dialogues / Greg Morris

Grendal and Blake : the contraries of existence / Helen B. Ellis & Warren U. Ober

John Gardner's Grendel / Jerome Klinkowitz

Survival and redemptive vision in Jason and Medeia / John Trimbur

Sailing through the King's Indian with John Gardner and his friends / Donald J. Greiner

Modern moralities for children : John Gardner's children's books / Gerald DeLuca & Roni Natov

John Gardner, librettist : a composer's notes / Joseph Baber

The real monster in Freddy's book / Walter Cummins

Magical prisons : embedded structures in the work of John Gardner / Kathryn VanSpanckeren

New fiction, popular fiction, and John Gardner's middle/moral way / Robert A. Morace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: John Gardner, critical perspectives.

ISBN:

0809310317

9780809310319

OCLC:

7875091

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