Denise Giardina

Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt (Shepherd College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 25 Oct 1951
Activity 1984-ongoing

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“Sin and redemption, moral choices, the nature of good and evil”, Giardina has asserted, are her themes. “I try to explore,” she continues in the author’s notes to Saints and Villains, “the human side of evil and the flawed aspects of good and see [within both] moral complexity.” Whether she carries her readers back to the Seventeenth Century (as she does through the time-travel fantasy of her latest novel Fallam’s Secret), to the coal fields of West Virginia to relive the mining wars of the first half of the Twentieth Century (as she does in Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth), to the blood-drenched battlefields of Agincourt and Shrewsbury (as in Good King Harry…

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Citation: Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey. "Denise Giardina". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 May 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5911, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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