Return to good and evil
Subtitle: Flannery O'Connor's response to nihilism
By: Henry T. Edmondson, III.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Ethics.; O'Connor, Flannery -- Philosophy.; Nihilism (Philosophy) in literature.; Good and evil in literature.; Nihilism in literature.
Other titles: Return to good & evil
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Faith, philosophy, and fiction; title: O'Connor contra nihilism; title: Modern man as malgré lui in Wise blood; title: Wise blood and the difficult return to God; title: "Good country people" and the seduction of nihilism; title: The nature of evil in "The lame shall enter first"; title: Social change in "The enduring chill"; title: Modernity vs. mystery in "A view of the woods"; title: Redemption and the ennoblement of suffering in "The artificial nigger"; title: Grace, the Devil, and the prophet.