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John Gardner - A Tiny Eulogy (Paperback)
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John Gardner - A Tiny Eulogy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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John Gardner's career was permanently changed by his publication of
On Moral Fiction (1978), a controversial and derided assessment of
the state of literature as Gardner saw it. By arguing for a return
to greater seriousness and moral commitments in literature, Gardner
found himself attacked on all sides by critics and writers who
found his conservatism suspicious or simply irrelevant. In this
short tribute to Gardner's late intellectual concerns, Phil Jourdan
looks at some of the difficulties in On Moral Fiction, and asks
whether Gardner was rigorous enough in his deployment of various
philosophical concepts through his book. Convinced that, despite
any problems of argumentative method or intellectual honesty, On
Moral Fiction's basic message should not be dismissed outright,
Jourdan tries to determine what is superfluous to the book, so that
we may focus on its core: a call for writers not to forget their
moral influence on readers. Now that Gardner's career is
half-forgotten, it is worth remembering this impassioned and public
debate on the role of literature has been around far longer than we
care to pretend: throughout the centuries, as literature attempts
to define itself over and over, the question of morality is always
lurking in the background. In John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy, Phil
Jourdan tries to separate the man from the argument, and insists
that the latter should not be dismissed because of the imperfection
of the former.
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