0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies

Buy Now

John Gardner - A Tiny Eulogy (Paperback) Loot Price: R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
John Gardner - A Tiny Eulogy (Paperback): Phil Jourdan

John Gardner - A Tiny Eulogy (Paperback)

Phil Jourdan

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R436 Discovery Miles 4 360

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Punctum Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2012
First published: November 2012
Authors: Phil Jourdan
Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-73451-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN: 0-615-73451-0
Barcode: 9780615734514

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners