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  1. A dream of peace
    art and death in the fiction of John Gardner
    Author: Nutter, Ronald Grant
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Lang, New York ; Washington, DC/Baltimore ; San Francisco ; Bern ; Fra

    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... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0820433683
    Series: Modern American literature ; 9
    Subjects: Mort - Dans la littérature; Death in literature; Tod <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Gardner, John <1933-1982> - Critique et interprétation; Gardner, John <1933-1982> - Thèmes, motifs; Gardner, John <1933-1982>; Gardner, John (1933-1982)
    Scope: 236 S.
  2. A dream of peace
    art and death in the fiction of John Gardner
    Author: Nutter, Ronald Grant
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Lang, New York ; Washington, DC/Baltimore ; San Francisco ; Bern ; Fra

    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... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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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

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0820433683
    RVK Categories: HU 3694
    Series: Modern American literature ; 9
    Subjects: Mort - Dans la littérature; Death in literature; Tod <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Gardner, John <1933-1982> - Critique et interprétation; Gardner, John <1933-1982> - Thèmes, motifs; Gardner, John <1933-1982>; Gardner, John (1933-1982)
    Scope: 236 S.