Understanding Robert StoneUniv of South Carolina Press, 2002 - 261 pages A strong case for Stone as an articulate and passionate moralist; In this guide to the fiction of Robert Stone, Gregory Stephenson introduces readers to a novelist of popular appeal and critical acclaim whom he describes as an anomaly among contemporary American writers - an author independent of literary fashions, unaffiliated with groups or movements. In this critical survey, Stephenson identifies the qualities that separate Stone from his peers and have brought him accolades such as the National Book Award, earning him a place of enduring significance in the American canon. Stephenson provides close readings of Stone's novels and short stories, including A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate. He traces the combination of a stark, hard-boiled realism with the hallucinatory and mystical aspects of Stone's writing. His examination of Stone's attention to character, imagery, and figures of speech stands beside his suggestion that Stone's corpus reveals a coherent, evolving vision of moral, psychological, political, and metaphysical concerns. |
Table des matières
Understanding Robert Stone | 1 |
A Hall of Mirrors | 11 |
Dog Soldiers | 37 |
A Flag for Sunrise | 65 |
Children of Light | 94 |
Outerbridge Reach | 114 |
Damascus Gate | 155 |
Bear and His Daughter | 194 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 247 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
American Antheil BEAR become believes boat Browne Browne's character Children of Light Clotho cold compassion condition Converse counterculture Damascus Gate darkness DAUGHTER death desire despite Dog Soldiers Donald Crowhurst dream drugs Elliot embodies encounter experience expresses faith false Father Egan fear feels figures film Flag for Sunrise Fletch Geraldine Hall of Mirrors heroin Hicks Hicks's Holliwell Holliwell's human humankind ideals identity illusion impulses inner insight Jerusalem Justin kind Kuff latent later lives Lu Anne Lu Anne's Lucas Lucas's Marge metaphor metaphysical mind moral motif motivated mystical nature novel Nuala Outerbridge Reach Owen Owen's Pablo perception perspective poem possesses psyche Rainey Raziel reality redeem redemption religious represents resonance Rheinhardt Rowan Sabazios sense SHORT FICTION Sonia spiritual Stone's fiction story Strickland suggests Tecan terror theme tion transcendence truth ultimate UNDERSTANDING ROBERT STONE Vietnam Vietnam War violence vision voyage W. B. Yeats Walker