The eternal crossroads : the art of Flannery O'Connor / Leon V. Driskell, Joan T. Brittain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driskell, Leon V., 1932- author.

Brittain, Joan T., 1928-2010, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Connor, Flannery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : The University Press of Kentucky, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Flannery O'Connor was a writer of extraordinary power and virtuosity. Her strong supple prose blends humor, pathos, satire, and grotesquerie which leads the reader to the evil at the center of the self's labyrinth. There, she confronts that evil with originality and power, pulling the reader into consideration of the terrifying dependencies of love in the recesses of the heart.This study focuses on Flannery O'Connor's sense of the coincidence of the eternal and cosmic with worldly time and place -- ""the eternal crossroads"" -- and how that sense controls and infuses her fiction.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: The Eternal Crossroads; CHAPTER TWO: Specific Influences: Mauriac, Hawthorne, & West; CHAPTER THREE: 'Wise Blood' & What Came Before; CHAPTER FOUR: The Expanded Vision: From the Tower of Babel to Vicarious Atonement; CHAPTER FIVE: A Second Navel & Related Stories; CHAPTER SIX: The Posthumous Collection; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2015).

ISBN:

0-8131-6270-X

OCLC:

900345177