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Author:

Nisly, L. Lamar, 1968-

Title:

Wingless chickens, bayou Catholics, and pilgrim wayfarers : constructions of audience and tone in O'Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy / L. Lamar Nisly.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Mercer University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.
Gautreaux, Tim--Criticism and interpretation.
Percy, Walker,--1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
Christianity and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
Catholic Church--In literature.
Catholics in literature.
Authors and readers--Southern States.
Reader-response criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Contents:

Flannery O'Connor : the writer as prophet to wingless chickens -- O'Connor's surprisingly surprising fiction -- Tim Gautreaux : the writer as companion to bayou Catholics -- Gautreaux's tales of humor and moral choices -- Walker Percy : the writer as diagnostic canary to pilgrim wayfarers -- Percy's edgy satiric fiction.

ISBN:

0881462144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780881462142 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)655250552

LCCN:

2010033547

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)