John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy

by Phil Jourdan

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615734510
• ISBN13: 9780615734514
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"