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	Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fiction is largely perceived as a form of art and/or entertainment, although not all fiction is necessarily artistic.
		Fiction may be created for the purpose of educating, such as fictional examples used in school textbooks.
		Fiction is a fundamental part of human culture, and the ability to create fiction and other artistic works is frequently cited as one of the defining characteristics of humanity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiction (1161 words)

	Seattle Catholic - Faith and Fiction
		For that very reason any concern raised over morality in fiction is a testament to the potential power of the writer's craft which surpasses that of many other fields for the sheer universality and accessibility of the medium.
		From the point of view of Morality, to assume that "it doesn't not matter what one writes" is permissible only to the insane; the artist is responsible to the good of human life, in himself and in his fellow men.
		It is also possible, and probable, that the moral conscience of an artist whose work is really pernicious is contaminated by questionable human inclinations, warped instincts, or resentments or vices, which he shelters behind his art: then he will claim...
	www.seattlecatholic.com /article_20041018.html (2755 words)

	Homer Kizer - Serialized Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Therefore, because what will make my fiction distinct from other journeymen writers is the knowledge I have received free, I wish to freely offer these stories to visitors.
		Whatever moral the story reveals should arise from the story, and not be added to the story by "sermonizing." I will attempt to avoid the temptation to lecture; you are free (and even encouraged) to tell me when I fail to let the story be the sermon.
		Fiction explores the question of "what if." Before our language lost its orality, trickster figures were used to explore what-ifs.
	homerkizer.org /serial.html (390 words)

	Moral Fiction - New York Times
		Compared with novelists, utilitarian economists are "blind to the qualitative richness of the perceptible world; to the separateness of its people, to their inner depths, their hopes and loves and fears; blind to what it is like to live a human life and to try to endow it with a human meaning."
		But she muddies her case for fiction as a genre by focusing on three social-problem novels about the hot-button issues of class, race and sexual preference.
		Nussbaum's appeal to the outlook of fiction as a model for judicial and social policy is bracingly utopian and immensely heartening.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E4D91339F934A35757C0A960958260&pagewanted=all (1252 words)

	Kenneth Gangemi on Nonsense, Assemblage, and the Mask of Fiction
		If there is a renewed push, as you say, for a 'moral fiction,' I am unaware of it.
		Morality is perhaps the most important theme in The Interceptor Pilot.
		The morality in Lydia and The Volcanoes is contained in the style of life and the sense of values that is gradually expressed throughout the two books.
	www.atticusbooks.com /gargoyle/Issues/scanned/issue17/gangemi.htm (2734 words)

	IS 590: A Few Thoughts : Christian Fiction
		Fiction is one of the fastest growing categories in Christian publishing.
		Some Christian fiction publishers are hopeful that their work will increasingly be found in the general fiction area (out of the ghetto).
		Christian fiction should not be an escape from secular life, but rather a means to understand it and imp rove it.
	web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/590_lec_chr.html (2051 words)

	The Hindu : Seeking a moral base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is this vision of a moral that lies at the core of all great literature and it is because writers have written of this vision that it has entered our human selves and become part of our aspirations and our dreams - become, in fact, almost a reality for us.
		Morality is never the purpose of literature, it is the guide, the marker, the lights that show where the runaway is. The death of a good character is not a defeat for morality.
		Morality in literature, therefore, comes from the author, from the philosophy of the author which is the foundation of all that she/ he creates.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/02/04/stories/1304067l.htm (3480 words)

	PEA Soup: Moral Fictionalism
		This ‘binary’ nature of the truth conditions in ordinary moral claims is not capturable by MF, because MF renders the truth condition for moral claims ‘singular’—something to be settled solely by the existence of prescriptive entities.
		The acceptable ones are the ones that are true according to the fiction of morality (which, I suppose, consists of the claims of "common sense morality" or whatever).
		Some people can use moral utterances to express their beliefs whereas others can merely be expressing their sense that these beliefs are useful for various purposes, or their beliefs that it is somehow as if this or that action has this or that property of the sort that the theory of morality proposes.
	peasoup.typepad.com /peasoup/2006/01/moral_fictional.html (15197 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 35, No. 4 - January 1979 - BOOK REVIEW - On Moral Fiction
		In On Moral Fiction he is a critic, and even assumes what some might call a prophetic stance in regard to "postmodern" culture.
		Gardner gives many statements and restatements of what he means by "morality" in art, always being careful to exclude what is propagandistic, moralistic, inhumane, and preachy.
		For example television is good "only when it has a clear positive moral effect; presenting valid models for imitation, eternal verities worth keeping in mind, and a benevolent vision of the possible which can inspire and incite human beings toward virtue, toward life affirmation as opposed to destruction or indifference."
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1979/v35-4-bookreview13.htm (333 words)

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		Fiction goes after understanding by capturing, through imitation, "the ineluctable modality of the world" -- that is, characters who subtly embody values and who test them, with clear but inexpressible results, in action.
		In art, morality and love are inextricably bound: we affirm what is good -- for the characters in particular and for humanity in general -- because we care.
		He imitates human gesture in the movements of his puppets, but he does not worry as a father worries about the behavior of his son; and the result is a fictional universe one would not want one's loved ones forced to inhabit.
	www.jmarkbertrand.com /2005/04/thinking-about-on-moral-fiction_16.htm (674 words)

	intro thesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He attempts to clarify the idea that fiction is moral when it is true art, and true art, says Gardner is that which isn’t overly didactic in initial purpose, is that which doesn’t “know” where it will end up, and that which is life affirming (19).
		He also believes that moral fiction is literature that points the way for us, showing us the possibilities that exist within us individually and collectively as human beings.
		I do believe that the power of fiction lies in the fact that it is a narrative, that it tells a story, big or small, for it is through stories that we are best able to recognize ourselves and learn about who we are and might be.
	www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us /staff/dehogue/intro_thesis.htm (3526 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Muddled Morals
		The amazing thing about On Moral Fiction is that, despite the naivete of its fundamental tenet, it is filled with acute, valuable observations on contemporary art.
		We may be unable to swallow in the abstract the statement that the missing quality is "love," or "morality"; but leaving aside these culturally ambiguous, exhausted words floating like smoke-screens between us and Gardner's criticisms, he makes sense.
		On Moral Fiction is worth reading, if only to learn what one of the finest contemporary novelists has to say about his colleagues.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=152381 (1142 words)

	Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser, by John M. Steadman
		Moral Fiction in Milton and Spenser, by John M. Steadman
		John M. Steadman examines how Milton and Spenser--and Renaissance poets in general--applied their art toward the depiction of moral and historical "truth." Steadman centers his study on the various poetic techniques of illusion that these poets employed in their effort to bridge the gap between truth and imaginative fiction.
		Reevaluating the views of twentieth-century critics, it emphasizes the priority of conscious fiction over autobiographical "fact" in these poets' adaptations of this topos.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall1995/steadman.htm (298 words)

	Joho the Blog: Grand Theft Auto and Moral Fiction
		It is the equivalent of science fiction, except instead of removing the law against time travel, the law against murder is removed.
		If we were to connect with our victims, the morality would no longer be suspended; when Nicholson falls for the hitwoman who is to be his victim in Prizzi's Honor, morality — sort of — comes back into play because the human connection is made.
		In fact, the implicit disconnectedness is itself the source of humor: When in Pulp Fiction Travolta accidentally blows a kid's head off in the back of the car, that it means nothing to him and Jackson except that they have a mess to clean up is funny.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/000019.html (912 words)

	Salon.com Books \| The death of the Red-Hot Center
		It certainly seemed to be, what with the New Yorker and Esquire, two of the foremost American showcases for literary fiction, firmly in its thrall and so many emerging writers naming Raymond Carver as their model.
		The teacher and editor Gordon Lish (whose own experimental novels would suggest a greater affinity with the metafictionists) was a tireless advocate for minimalism and is known to have stripped Carver's early stories down to their very bones.
		It's true that the clean, declarative sentences that are a signal trait of minimalist fiction are the easiest kind of competent writing to teach, and that minimalism's restrained, quirk-free, almost documentary approach is the least likely to offend or irritate a classroom of 10 fellow writers.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/08/11/guide_intro/index1.html (1200 words)

	Dutoit, "Re-specting the Face as the Moral (of) Fiction" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Through this perfect face it is possible to see her perfect moral and psychological constitution, to the extent that "her person was the image of her mind" (30).
		Indeed, their parents are "bent down." Whereas Elizabeth's uprightness is revealed in the figure of {852} the "garden rose among dark-leaved brambles," the vagrancy of these dark people is revealed by the figure of the "dark brambles." The brambles are the not-straight; the rose is what stands straight.
		While there is no voice of command before the creation of the monster, while Frankenstein's encounter with the monster is an encounter with the voice that commands to listen, echoes of this "voice of command" reverberate throughout the text insofar as the different characters recurrently hear imperious voices.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/dutoit.html (8924 words)

	'Notebook' writer finds success in trend toward 'moral fiction' : Wednesday, July 14, 2004
		That said, Sparks has proven himself a master of what he terms "commercial fiction." Each of his eight published novels has been a national bestseller, beginning in 1996 with The Notebook, his first big book but the latest to be adapted to the big screen.
		While humanly falling short of moral perfection, his characters' lives center on "faith, family, community, friendships." And they're all defined by loyalty," he said.
		Critic and teacher Randall VanderMey of Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., explained that so-called moral writing runs the gamut from authors who passively avoid objectionable topics to those who, from the standpoint of faith, actively confront the grittiness of human fallenness.
	www.biblicalrecorder.org /content/news/2004/7_14_2004/ne140704cNotebook.shtml (876 words)

	The Arch and the Abyss: A John C . Gardner Resource
		"The Process of 'Moral Fiction': Protagonist as Artist in John Gardner's Novels." Mendez-Egle, 13-24.
		"A Phenomenology of On Moral Fiction." Henderson Thor's Hammer: 147-56.
		Morace, Robert A. "Freddy's Book, Moral Fiction, and Writing as a Mode of Thought." Modern Fiction Studies 29 (1983): 201-212.
	www.johngardner.org /checklist/index.html (2072 words)

	Amazon.com: On Moral Fiction (Basic Books Classics): Books: John C. Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The "moral" in the title puts off some folks, but don't be deterred.
		Gardner uses the term "moral" as you or I would use the word "truth." All Gardner is imploring is that authors seek the truth when writing fiction and avoid cheap tricks and cheap effects.
		Fortunately, Gardner is aware that the world of art cannot be reduced to fl-and-white contrasts; for all his self-righteous fire, it is obvious that he has considered his position well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465052266?v=glance (2049 words)

	Literature Network Forums - View Single Post - On Moral Fiction, by John Gardener
		Here is a autobiogray page on him if you like to use it: http://www.todayinliterature.com/bi...ohn.gardner.asp, JOHN, On Moral Fiction.
		Arguably Gardner's most important book, a controversial polemic that took the unpopular position that artists bear a moral responsibility that they ignore at the risk of rendering their work irrelevant.
		The controversy around this essay beset Gardner beyond all expectations, and he was painted by some as a fascist and throwback to a time when Art only served the prevailing moral, social, and political order.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showpost.php?p=104034&postcount=2 (186 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Literary criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Acrimonious disagreements over the goals and methods of literary criticism, which characterized both sides taken by critics during the "rise" of theory, have declined (though they still happen), and many critics feel that they now have a great plurality of methods and approaches from which to choose.
		Some critics work largely with theoretical texts, while others read traditional literature; interest in the literary canon is still great, but many critics are also interested in minority and women's literatures, while some critics influenced by cultural studies read popular texts like comic books or pulp/genre fiction.
		Many literary critics also work in film criticism or media studies.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Literary_criticism (2548 words)

	Mormon SF Bibliography: Nonfiction
		Allred, David A. “‘He Felt Like His Heart Was on Fire’: Folklore, Fantasy, and Forgery in Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son.” In “Fiction, Folklore, and Reader Competency: The Politics of Literary Performance Arenas.” Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri–Columbia, 2004.
		Tvedtnes, John A. “Religious Themes in American Science Fiction.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed.
		Hume, Barbara R. “Prologue: Strange Bedfellows—a History of Science Fiction in the Corridor.” In Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, ed.
	www.mormonsf.org /nonfiction.html (7497 words)

	jmarkbertrand.com - Fiction
		This part of the site is devoted to my fiction and writing about fiction.
		I have a feeling that Christian writing has the potential to be quite different from the safe evangelical pieties we associate with it.
		I've written quite a bit of short fiction and, as of April 2004, am working on my debut novel.
	www.jmarkbertrand.com /fiction/default.htm (595 words)

	The Fiction of Douglas Glover: An Essay in Three Parts
		So it is in Glover's fiction, and the way Glover constructs character through voice is one way to examine his approach to fiction.
		Kafka is often cited as a postmodern percursor because of the predominance of "dislocation" in his fiction.
		Of course, any "historical fiction" could be said to work on two axes, since the reader always reads the book in the present and the action is always set in the past.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/essays/glover.htm (7145 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		John Gardner’s On Moral Fiction is criticism with both eyes open, fearless, illuminating, proving.
		that true art is moral and not trivial.
		A genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that “true art is by its nature moral.”
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=8040 (53 words)

	Issue 3 - 1999 - New biological weapons: Science fiction or moral imperative?
		This, I was sure, was pure science fiction.
		Let's engage not only scientific leaders and politicians but also military, moral and religious leaders as well.
		Maybe only the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has the moral force to make politicians and scientists learn the lessons drawn from the most awful chapters of human history.
	www.redcross.int /EN/mag/magazine399/31999_7.asp (1009 words)

	Love, Literature, and Morality
		"A book can be moral if it raises moral questions even if it doesn't provide moral answers." That's the view of Marilyn Edelstein, associate professor of English at Santa Clara University, who leads her students through novels such as Lolita, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Beloved, with an emphasis on the ethical issues each addresses.
		She has also written on John Gardner's book On Moral Fiction, which raised the hackles of writers and literary scholars when it appeared in 1978, condemning contemporary art as amoral or immoral.
		Her paper, "Ethics and Contemporary American Literature: Revisiting the Controversy Over John Gardner's On Moral Fiction" — delivered last November at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference — will appear in the association's journal, Pacific Coast Philology.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/publications/iie/v7n3/edelstein.html (324 words)

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