Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Gardner's use of unreliable and often intrusive narrative
voices is a structural key to the world view presented
in his novels. All the narrators, whether they be
involved central characters or intrusive third-person
voices, journey toward knowledge and affirmation in
art. In The Wreckage of Ag'athon, the aged seer is
driven by the chaos he cannot untangle to create his
own rationale. Grendel embraces a nihilistic world
view until the monster is finally lifted to a limited
sort of vision as a shaper of experience. The voice
of The Sunlight Dialogues is limited omniscient, yet
the narrator intrudes, reminding the reader that he is
dependent upon an involved point of view. In the
dream-narrative of Jason and Medeia, perhaps the best
utilization of an involved, fallible narrator, the
journey toward affirmative vision balongs more to the
narrator than the hero.
voices is a structural key to the world view presented
in his novels. All the narrators, whether they be
involved central characters or intrusive third-person
voices, journey toward knowledge and affirmation in
art. In The Wreckage of Ag'athon, the aged seer is
driven by the chaos he cannot untangle to create his
own rationale. Grendel embraces a nihilistic world
view until the monster is finally lifted to a limited
sort of vision as a shaper of experience. The voice
of The Sunlight Dialogues is limited omniscient, yet
the narrator intrudes, reminding the reader that he is
dependent upon an involved point of view. In the
dream-narrative of Jason and Medeia, perhaps the best
utilization of an involved, fallible narrator, the
journey toward affirmative vision balongs more to the
narrator than the hero.
Member of