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A critical study that examines Gardner's fiction, philosophy, and intertextual "collage technique" to show how his moral and aesthetic ideas shape his major works.A major contribution to Gardner studies, The Art of John Gardner offers a rich, wide-ranging account of one of the most intellectually ambitious American writers of the twentieth century. Per Winther brings together philosophy, literary criticism, and close textual analysis to illuminate both Gardner’s fiction and his critical project, especially his influential arguments in On Moral Fiction.Drawing on thinkers such as Darwin, Whitehead, Collingwood, Blanshard, and Croce, Winther reconstructs the philosophical groundwork behind Gardner's moral aesthetics, while also charting how those ideas take shape across his novels, short fiction, and scholarly writings. Particular attention is given to Gardner's engagement with medieval literature and his early editorial work, revealing how deeply his fiction is rooted in tradition even as it pushes toward innovation.Winther's study is especially notable for its examination of Gardner’s intertextual practice—what he calls Gardner’s "collage technique"—and for tracing the deliberate use of literary classics within his narrative art. This approach not only clarifies individual works but also reframes Gardner"s relationship to modern and postmodern techniques.
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This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitch's ideas about the relationship of American cultural institutions to voices of dissent have repeatedly posed challenges to pervasive assumptions about American culture and the methods used by cultural critics and literary historians. The contributors to this book respond to different aspects of Bercovitch's ideas by exploring a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including American, Chicano, Amerindian, African-American, Asian-American, feminist, comparatist, philosophical, legal, and critical studies. In addition to essays that focus on the theoretical backgrounds and implications of Bercovitch's concepts, this book interrogates the uses of those concepts in the study of American literatures. Works by a variety of American writers are analyzed: the Colonial poet Phillis Wheatly; nineteenth-century writers Hawthorne and Melville; modernists Pound and Eliot; contemporary authors John Barth, Norman Mailer, Arturo Islas, and John Yau; and philosophers William James and Stanley Cavell. This book offers new directions to students of American culture, while it participates in the ongoing reassessment of American cultural and literary scholarship.