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008			200605s2012 nyu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2019394532
020			_a9780615734514
020			_z0615734510
035			_a(OCoLC)945782487
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	4	_aPS3557.A712
100	1		_aJourdan, Phil, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJohn Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy _cPhil Jourdan.
264		1	_bPunctum Books
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic resource 53 pages)
500			_a"Directory of open access books"
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 45-46).
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	8		_aAnnotation _bJohn 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	1	_aGardner, John, _d1933-1982. $t On moral fiction
600	1	1	_aGardner, John, _d1933-1982 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aLiterature (General)
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
730	0		_aDirectory of open access books.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76430/
999			_c26834 _d26834