num_pages: 259
description: The two southern fiction writers most informed by orthodox religion, Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy were also among the most influential southern writers of their generation. In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains that the radical religiosity of O'Connor and Percy's vision is precisely what made them so valuable as both southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed to even their most unorthodox successors a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha.An exercise in literary history and criticism, Peculiar Crossroads renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers.
language: English
title: Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, And Catholic Vision In Postwar Southern Fiction
titlecomplete: Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, And Catholic Vision In Postwar Southern Fiction (Southern Literary Studies)
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr