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100 1  Jourdan, Phil,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2014008534|eauthor. 
245 10 John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy /|cPhil Jourdan. 
264  1 Brooklyn, NY. :|bPunctum Books|c2012. 
264  3 Baltimore, Md. :|bProject MUSE, |c2020. 
264  4 |c©2012. 
300    1 online resource (1 electronic resource 53 pages) 
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500    "Directory of open access books" 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-46). 
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520 8  Annotation|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. 
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600 11 Gardner, John,|d1933-1982. $t On moral fiction. 
600 11 Gardner, John,|d1933-1982|xCriticism and interpretation. 
650  0 Literature (General) 
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       n96089174|edistributor. 
730 0  Directory of open access books. 
830  0 Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 40 |zOnline eBook. Open Access via Project Muse. |uhttps://
       muse.jhu.edu/book/76430/ 
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