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Author:

O'Gorman, Farrell.

Title:

Peculiar crossroads : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction / Farrell O'Gorman.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

ix, 259 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.
Christianity and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Percy, Walker,--1916---Criticism and interpretation
Christian fiction, American--History and criticism.
Catholics--Southern States--Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States--Religion

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.

Contents:

"We have had our fall" : malaise and mystery in the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy -- South to Rome : four southern writers and the Catholic revival -- Toward a Catholic theory of fiction : a Christian realism of the "here-and-now" -- Postwar America and the end of the modern South : catastrophes, castaways, new worlds -- Languages of mystery : legacies of O'Connor and Percy in contemporary southern letters.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

9780807129883
0807129887 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55208449

LCCN:

2004011064

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)