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Title:

Flannery O'Connor's radical reality / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xvii, 196 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Christian fiction, American--History and criticism.
Southern States--In literature.

Other Authors:

Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
Westarp, Karl-Heinz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : from the grotesque to terror, Flannery O'Connor's radical reality -- A good monk is hard to find : Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, the American Catholic writer, and the Cold War / Michael Kreyling -- Flannery O'Connor's art : a gesture of grace / Lila N. Meeks -- The world of the cartoons and their importance to O'Connor's fiction / Kelly Gerald -- He would have been a good man : compassion and meanness in Truman Capote and Flannery O'Connor / Marshall Bruce Gentry -- "Then I discovered the Germans" : O'Connor's encounter with Guardini and German thinkers of the interwar period / W.A. Sessions -- Seeking beauty in darkness : Flannery O'Connor and the French Catholic renaissance / Sarah Gordon -- The church-historical origin of O'Connor's blood symbolism / Inger Th©œrnqvist -- "The very heart of mystery" : theophany in O'Connor's stories / Jack Dillard Ashley -- Metaphoric processes in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction / Karl-Heinz Westarp -- Fiction's echo of revelation : Flannery O'Connor's challenge as Thomistic maker / Marion Montgomery -- O'Connor's Everything that rises must converge and theories of the short story sequence / Hans H. Skei -- Flannery O'Connor as communicant : a constant devotion / Jean W. Cash -- Toward discerning how Flannery O'Connor's fiction can be considered "Roman Catholic" / Patrick Samway, S.J. -- Life ad Andalusia / Ashley Brown.

ISBN:

9781570036019
1570036012 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61140990

LCCN:

2005020426

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)