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Conversations with John Gardner

出版	University Press of Mississippi, 1990
主題	Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN	08780542279780878054220
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OVMqtAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of Americas foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as "Grendel" (1971) and "The Sunlight Dialogues" (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as a major contemporary writer. After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of Americas most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book "On Moral Fiction" and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers rema