John Gardner: Critical Perspectives (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques. New Series) - Hardcover

?I hope they’re interesting, I hope not more interesting than the fiction,” says John Gard­ner in his Afterword to these twelve essays that probe deeply into each of his major nov­els, his epic poem, his children’s stories, and his work as a librettist.

Contents include: ?Et in Arcadia Ego: Gardner’s Early Novels” by David Cowart; ??Into the Farther Darkness’: The Mani­chaean Pastoralism of John Gardner” by Samuel Coale; ?A Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian Literature and Lore in The Sunlight Dialogues” by Greg Morris; and ?Grendel and Blake: The Contraries of Exis­tence” by Helen B. Ellis and Warren U. Ober.

?John Gardner’s Grendel” by Jerome Klin­kowitz; ?Survival and Redemptive Vision in Jason and Medeia” by John Trimbur; ?Sailing Through The King’s Indian with John Gardner and His Friends” by Donald J. Greiner; ?Modern Moralities for Children: John Gardner’s Children’s Books” by Geraldine DeLuca and Roni Natov.

?John Gardner, Librettist: A Composer’s Notes” by Joseph Baber; ?The Real Monster in Freddy’s Book” by Walter Cummins; ?Magi­cal Prisons: Embedded Structures in the Work of John Gardner” by Kathryn Van­Spanckeren; and ?New Fiction, Popular Fic­tion, and John Gardner’s Middle/Moral Way” by Robert A. Morace.