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... Moral Fiction , Copyright © 1971 . Allen & Unwin , part of Harper Collins Publishers , for quota- tions from Brand Blanshard , Reason and Goodness . Introduction John Gardner's untimely death in a motorcycle accident in X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... Moral Fiction , Copyright © 1971 . Allen & Unwin , part of Harper Collins Publishers , for quota- tions from Brand Blanshard , Reason and Goodness . Introduction John Gardner's untimely death in a motorcycle accident in X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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... fictional books — his Chaucer biography ( 1977 ) , which gave rise to accusations of plagiarism , and On Moral Fiction ( 1978 ) , which cre- ated a stir because of rampantly iconoclastic views on the role of fiction — turned Gardner ...
... fictional books — his Chaucer biography ( 1977 ) , which gave rise to accusations of plagiarism , and On Moral Fiction ( 1978 ) , which cre- ated a stir because of rampantly iconoclastic views on the role of fiction — turned Gardner ...
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... Novels of John Gardner : Making Life Art as a Moral Process ( 1988 ) .3 The emphasis of in - depth analyses so far has been primarily thematical . Cowart , Morris , and Butts give very lucid accounts of Gardner's key ideas on philosophy ...
... Novels of John Gardner : Making Life Art as a Moral Process ( 1988 ) .3 The emphasis of in - depth analyses so far has been primarily thematical . Cowart , Morris , and Butts give very lucid accounts of Gardner's key ideas on philosophy ...
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... Moral Fiction : " Insofar as literature is a telling of new stories , lit- erature has been ' exhausted ' for centuries ; but insofar as literature tells archetypal stories in an attempt to understand once more their truth — translate ...
... Moral Fiction : " Insofar as literature is a telling of new stories , lit- erature has been ' exhausted ' for centuries ; but insofar as literature tells archetypal stories in an attempt to understand once more their truth — translate ...
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... Moral Fiction and the reading of his more traditionally crafted novels might lead one to believe , novels like The Resurrection , Nickel Mountain , October Light , and Mickelsson's Ghosts . This is indeed a point worth noticing . Not ...
... Moral Fiction and the reading of his more traditionally crafted novels might lead one to believe , novels like The Resurrection , Nickel Mountain , October Light , and Mickelsson's Ghosts . This is indeed a point worth noticing . Not ...
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