A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820433684)

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A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner

$62.95

A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John Gardner

$62.95
Format: Hardcover
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The American novelist John Gardner died in a motorcycle accident in 1982. His novels, in which death and guilt are brooding presences, continue to attract attention. This study reviews Gardner's life and work, examining how his own tragic past prodded him to explore life's deepest mysteries. It breaks new ground by demonstrating how the philosophies of Susanne Langer and Alfred North Whitehead greatly influenced his thought. Gardner wrote that fiction is a vivid and continuous dream. Drawing on the fields of philosophy, religion, psychology, anthropology, and ritual studies, it becomes clear that the vision he would have us dream is a vision of peace , a Whiteheadian notion that says life is meaningful despite the ongoing presence of intractable evils like death and guilt.

Author: Yoshinobu Hakutani,Ronald Grant Nutter
ISBN-10: 0820433683
ISBN-13: 9780820433684
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
By Yoshinobu Hakutani
By Yoshinobu Hakutani
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The Author: Ronald Grant Nutter recently gave up his position as an assistant professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Liteature to relocate and be with his physician wife. In addition to raising their two-year-old son he is pursuing research and writing opportunities while teaching an occasional course at a local college. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where he concentrated his work in the interdisciplinary area of Religion and Literature.

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