A Dream of Peace: Art and Death in the Fiction of John GardnerPeter Lang, 1997 - 236 pagini 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. |
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... wife there each week and would tolerate the visits of the minister . It was all a part of a felt sense of obligation to his wife and his job - indeed , to society as a whole . There are hints he yearns to be free from these obligations ...
... wife there each week and would tolerate the visits of the minister . It was all a part of a felt sense of obligation to his wife and his job - indeed , to society as a whole . There are hints he yearns to be free from these obligations ...
Pagina 138
... wife in suburban Buffalo , NY . A man of cheap sentiment , Benson / Boyle is often quoting memorized poetry from Edgar Guest . But , to use a Kierkegaardian term , he does not " reduplicate ” in his own actions the values described ...
... wife in suburban Buffalo , NY . A man of cheap sentiment , Benson / Boyle is often quoting memorized poetry from Edgar Guest . But , to use a Kierkegaardian term , he does not " reduplicate ” in his own actions the values described ...
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... wife . Caught up in a value structure which posits the rugged individualist as morally good , James has not been in a position to even recognize his wife's gift of forgiveness , much less accept it , until the end of the novel . Before ...
... wife . Caught up in a value structure which posits the rugged individualist as morally good , James has not been in a position to even recognize his wife's gift of forgiveness , much less accept it , until the end of the novel . Before ...
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Some Intellectual Antecedents | 31 |
Of PatternMaking and Art | 59 |
Pilgrimages Toward Death | 77 |
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