Flannery O Connor Hermit Novelist

Author : Richard Giannone
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611172270

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Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist by Richard Giannone Pdf

"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive time she developed a fascination with fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment and whose isolation, suffering, and faith mirrored her own. In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics and the ways in which she infused her fiction with their teachings. Surveying the influences of the desert fathers on O'Connor's protagonists, Giannone shows how her characters are moved toward a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of confronting both internal and worldly evils while being drawn closer to God. Artfully bridging literary analysis, O'Connor's biography, and monastic writings, Giannone's study explores O'Connor's advocacy of self-denial and self-scrutiny as vital spiritual weapons that might be brought to bear against the antagonistic forces she found rampant in modern American life.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056658431

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Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) is widely regarded as one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Only in 1979, however, with the publication of her collected letters could the public fully see the depth of her personal faith and her wisdom as a spiritual guide. Drawing from all her works this anthology highlights as never before O'Connor's distinctive voice as a spiritual writer, covering such topics as Christian Realism, the Church, the relation between faith and art, sin and grace, and the role of suffering in the life of a Christian. This volume also includes the complete text of O'Connor's short story, Revelation. Book jacket.

Author : Richard Giannone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Love in literature
ISBN : 0823219100

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Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love by Richard Giannone Pdf

"Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love interprets O'Connor's perplexing fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, this seminal study takes the pleasure of turning to the short stories and novels themselves and forming an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. This goal inevitably entails a consideration of the hardness and violence that are the hallmark of O'Connor's genius. That severity, for Giannone, is inseparable from O'Connor's recounting, in her words, "the action of grace." God's bounty can leave its beneficiaries with some very real handicaps." "These devastations paradoxically prepare the characters to receive and give compassion. In its numerous and disturbing forms, the coupling of violence and hardship with divine favor marks the mature nature of O'Connor's Christianity." --Book Jacket.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466829039

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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

Author : Charles Edward May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 1587658313

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Flannery O'Connor by Charles Edward May Pdf

Volume of literary criticism concerning the works of essayist, short-story writer, and novelist Flannery O'Connor.

Author : Jon Lance Bacon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521445299

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Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture by Jon Lance Bacon Pdf

Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture offers a radically new reading of O'Connor, who is known primarily as the creator of "universal" religious dramas. By recovering the historical context in which O'Connor wrote her fiction, Jon Lance Bacon reveals an artist deeply concerned with the issues that engaged other producers of American culture from the 1940s to the 1960s: a national identity, political anxiety, and intellectual freedom. Bacon takes an interdisciplinary approach, relating the stories and novels to political texts and sociological studies, as well as films, television programs, paintings, advertisements, editorial cartoons, and comic books. At a time when national paranoia ran high, O'Connor joined in the public discussion regarding a way of life that seemed threatened from outside - the American way of life. The discussion tended toward celebration, but O'Connor raised doubts about the quality of life within the United States. Specifically, she attacked the consumerism that cold warriors cited as evidence of American cultural superiority. The role of dissenter appealed greatly to O'Connor, and her identity as a Southern, Catholic writer - the very identity that has discouraged critics from considering her as an American writer - furnished a position from which to criticize the Cold War consensus.

Author : Rachel Toombs
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666725643

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Flannery O’Connor and Stylistic Asceticism by Rachel Toombs Pdf

Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism explores the impact style has not only on a story's meaning, but on the reading experience. O'Connor's sparingly wrought stories, particularly in their climactic moments of divine disclosure, invite characters and readers alike into invitations of graced encounters that often wound even as they bless. Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism draws out the force and vulnerability in reading spare stories of graced encounters by identifying a kinship with a much older form of storytelling: biblical Hebrew narrative. Focusing on the climactic scenes of O'Connor's Wise Blood and Genesis 32's account of Jacob's nighttime wrestling, Rachel Toombs offers a fresh take on the theological impact of spare narration. These stories invite readers into a posture akin to prayer where in an uncluttered space we see ourselves as we truly are and there meet God.

Author : Avis Hewitt
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572337084

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Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism by Avis Hewitt Pdf

In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a “time of terror.” The first major critical volume on Flannery O’Connor’s work in more than a decade, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism explores issues of violence, evil, and terror—themes that were never far from O’Connor’s reach and that seem particularly relevant to our present-day setting. The fifteen essays collected here offer a wide range of perspectives that explore our changing views of violence in a post-9/11 world and inform our understanding of a writer whose fiction abounds in violence. Written by both established and emerging scholars, the pieces that editors Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo have selected offer a compelling and varied picture of this iconic author and her work. Included are comparisons of O’Connor to 1950s writers of noir literature and to the contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy; cultural studies that draw on horror comics of the Cold War and on Fordism and the American mythos of the automobile; and pieces that shed new light on O’Connor’s complex religious sensibility and its role in her work. While continuing to speak fresh truths about her own time, O’Connor’s fiction also resonates deeply with the postmodern sensibilities of audiences increasingly distant from her era—readers absorbed in their own terrors and sense of looming, ineffable threats. This provocative new collection presents O’Connor’s work as a touchstone for understanding where our culture has been and where we are now. With its diverse approaches, Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism will prove useful not only to scholars and students of literature but to anyone interested in history, popular culture, theology, and reflective writing.

Author : Daniel Moran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820349541

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Creating Flannery O'Connor by Daniel Moran Pdf

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 : R. Neil Scott
Publisher : Timberlane Books
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0971542805

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Flannery O'Connor by R. Neil Scott Pdf

Author : Mark Bosco,Brent Little
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813229423

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Revelation and Convergence by Mark Bosco,Brent Little Pdf

Revelation & Convergence brings together professors of literature, theology, and history to help both critics and readers better understand Flannery O’Connor’s religious imagination.

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118608425

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A Companion to American Gothic by Charles L. Crow Pdf

A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available

Author : Angela Ailamo O'Donnell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814637265

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Flannery O'Connor by Angela Ailamo O'Donnell Pdf

Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction writers of the twentieth century. Struck with a fatal disease just as her career was blooming, O’Connor was forced to return to her rural home and to live an isolated life, far from the literary world she longed to be a part of. In this insightful new biography, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell depicts O’Connor’s passionate devotion to her vocation, despite her crippling illness, the rich interior life she lived through her reading and correspondence, and the development of her deep and abiding faith in the face of her own impending mortality. She also explores some of O’Connor’s most beloved stories, detailing the ways in which her fiction served as a means for her to express her own doubts and limitations, along with the challenges and consolations of living a faithful life. O’Donnell’s biography recounts the poignant story of America’s preeminent Catholic writer and offers the reader a guide to her novels and stories so deeply informed by her Catholic faith. People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day.

Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139436

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The Critical Reception of Flannery O'Connor, 1952-2017 by Robert C. Evans Pdf

The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443440264

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Flannery O'connor Complete Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Featuring all of American author Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, this collection reveals the author’s contemplations on religion, morality, and fate, set against the backdrop of the American South. The collection contains O’Connor’s most famous works of short fiction, including “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and reveals her many significant contributions to the Southern Gothic genre. Though she met with only mild popularity during her short life, Flannery O’Connor’s short stories have since been recognized as important works of American literature, and the original anthology of her complete stories won the National Book Award for fiction in 1972, seven years after her death. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.