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The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present.
Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571139435
The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present.
Author : Robert Donahoo
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603294074
Known for her violent, startling stories that culminate in moments of grace, Flannery O'Connor depicted the postwar segregated South from a unique perspective. This volume proposes strategies for introducing students to her Roman Catholic aesthetic, which draws on concepts such as incarnation and original sin, and offers alternative contexts for reading her work. Part 1, "Materials," describes resources that provide a grounding in O'Connor's work and life. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," discuss her beliefs about writing and her distinctive approach to fiction and religion; introduce fresh perspectives, including those of race, class, gender, and interdisciplinary approaches; highlight her craft as a creative writer; and suggest pairings of her works with other texts. Alice Walker's short story "Convergence" is included as an appendix.
Author : Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8491345639
“Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries” adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum-Caribbean region; they address the changing nature of Southernness, and especially its sense of place, and finally they investigate the potential of various texts to narrate and revisit regional concerns. Some contributions hold up to view topics ignored and marginalized, while other decontextualize themes and issues central to Southern studies by telling alternative histories.
Author : Alison Arant
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496831837
Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor," which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O’Connor’s work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O’Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention. The volume opens with “New Methodologies,” which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O’Connor’s fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, “New Contexts,” stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called “Strange Bedfellows,” puts O’Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, “O’Connor’s Legacy,” reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O’Connor’s interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O’Connor.
Author : Daniel Moran
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2017-10
Category : Authors and publishers
ISBN : 9780820352930
Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that status, and how she felt about it, by examining the development of her literary reputation from the perspectives of critics, publishers, agents, adapters for other media, and contemporary readers.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.
Author : Henry T. Edmondson III
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813169410
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions about human nature, ethics, social change, equality, and justice. Although political philosophy was not O'Connor's pursuit, her writings frequently address themes that are not only crucial to American life and culture, but also offer valuable insight into the interplay between fiction and politics. A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor explores the author's fiction, prose, and correspondence to reveal her central ideas about political thought in America. The contributors address topics such as O'Connor's affinity with writers and philosophers including Eric Voegelin, Edith Stein, Russell Kirk, and the Agrarians; her attitudes toward the civil rights movement; and her thoughts on controversies over eugenics. Other essays in the volume focus on O'Connor's influences, the principles underlying her fiction, and the value of her work for understanding contemporary intellectual life and culture. Examining the political context of O'Connor's life and her responses to the critical events and controversies of her time, this collection offers meaningful interpretations of the political significance of this influential writer's work.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374127522
Thirty one short stories that offer a picture of the Deep South.
Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110422425
Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time “before theory.” Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156364652
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