Reading Flannery O'Connor in Spain : from Andalusia to Andalucía / Mark Bosco, S.J. & Beatriz Valverde (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosco, Mark, editor.

Valverde, Beatriz (Valverde Jiménez), editor.

Series:

Colección Estudios literarios. Serie Estudios anglo-germánicos ; 1.

Colección Estudios literarios. Serie Estudios anglo-germánicos ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Connor, Flannery.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Jaén (España) : UJA Editorial, marzo 2020.

Summary:

This collection of essays places Flannery O'Connor's work in constructive and collaborative dialogue with Spanish literature and literary aesthetics. The international scholars who contributed to this volume explore the ways in which O'Connor's literary and religious vision continues to work in the imaginations of both American and European--mostly Spanish--authors. The subtitle of the collection-- From Andalusia to Andalucía --is a play on the name of O'Connor's family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia-- Andalusia --where she spent the last sixteen years of her life living with her mother. It is said that the farm's name was chosen because its location in Milledgeville was the farthest north the Spanish explorers of the sixteenth century traveled in the eastern U.S. before returning to Florida to establish permanent Spanish settlements. While perhaps colloquial in its origins, it is, nevertheless, a fitting and emblematic link between the Southern Gothic aesthetics of O'Connor's Andalusia and the baroque heritage of southern Spain's Andalucía. The essays in this collection explore O'Connor's literary vision through three interpretive lenses: first, through the relationship of the literary grotesque (a genre that often defines her work) with the Spanish baroque aesthetics that have come to define Spain's artistic heritage; second, through the relationship between O'Connor's literary imagination and the literature of other European writers that broaden the intellectual conversation about her work; and, third, through comparisons with other writers whose Catholic imaginations made their work--as the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins puts it--"counter, original, spare, strange." As the essays contained in this volume show, the work of Flannery O'Connor continues to bear rich intellectual and spiritual fruit when engaging with enculturated literary and aesthetic traditions.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Flannery O'Connor: Catholic and Quixotic / Beatriz Valverde

Reaching the World from the South: The Territory of Flannery O'Connor / Guadalupe Arbona

Another of Her Disciples: The Literary Grotesque and its Catholic Manifestations in Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor and La vida invisible by Juan Manuel de Prada / Anne-Marie Pouchet

"Andalusia on the Liffey": Sacred Monstrosity in O'Connor and Joyce / Michael Kirwan

Death's Personal Call: The Aesthetics of Catholic Eschatology in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Muriel Spark's Memento Mori / Ismael Ibanez-Rosales

Quixotism and Modernism: The Conversion of Hazel Motes / Brent Little

A Christian Malgri Lui: Crisis, Transition, and the Quixotic Pursuit. of the Ideal in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction / Xiamara Hohman

The Other as Angels: O'Connor's Case for Radical Hospitality / Michael Bruner

"A Purifying Terror": Apocalypse, Apostasy, and Alterity in Flannery O'Connor's "The Enduring Chill" / Jose Liste Noya.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788491593133

8491593136

9780813233178

0813233178

OCLC:

1191458374