Peculiar crossroads
Subtitle: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction
By: Farrell O'Gorman.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.; Percy, Walker, 1916- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Catholics -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- In literature.; Southern States -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.
Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000.
Table of contents: title: "We have had our fall" : malaise and mystery in the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy; title: South to Rome : four southern writers and the Catholic revival; title: Toward a Catholic theory of fiction : a Christian realism of the "here-and-now"; title: Postwar America and the end of the modern South : catastrophes, castaways, new worlds; title: Languages of mystery : legacies of O'Connor and Percy in contemporary southern letters.