![]() ![]() Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition. ![]() For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this new study by Ralph C. Forty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. |a Publisher's description: Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. |a A Roman Catholic at home in the Fundamentalist South - The burden of southern history and the presence of eternity within time - The problem of the color line : race and religion in Flannery O'Connor's South - The South as a mannered and mysteriously redemptive region - Preaching as the Southern Protestant sacrament - Demonic nihilism : the chief moral temptation of modernity - Vocation : the divine summons to drastic witness - Climbing into the starry field and shouting hallelujah : Flannery O'Connor's vision of the world to come. |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |a Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South / ![]()
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