| Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality Contributor(s): Westarp, Karl-Heinz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1570037175 ISBN-13: 9781570037177 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 Annotation: Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together a distinguished assembly of O'Connor scholars, four of whom numbered among the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the mid-century political, religious, and social milieu on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention and are rediscovered by new generations of readers. Relating O'Connor not only to the issues of her day but also to manifest concerns of the early twenty-first century, the essays illumine new horizons of her relevance. The contributors address the sources of O'Connor's concern with existential uncertainty and fear, relating it to the stark political light of the 1950s and 1960s; the church history and theology in which she immersed herself; the satiric eye she cast on humankind, on herself, and on her time; and such social issues as racial inequality that she could not escape despite her preoccupation with the eternal. In addition to offering a range of observations, the contributors mark the direction of future scholarship on the wry Georgian writer and open new avenues for exploring O'Connor's work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | American - General - Religion | Christian Living - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.01" W x 9.05" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together essays by a number of distinguished O'Connor scholars, four of whom were the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the political, religious, and social milieu of her time on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention and are rediscovered by new generations of readers. The contributors mark the current terrain of scholarship on the wry Georgian writer and open new avenues for future explorations in O'Connor's work. |