Risen sons
Subtitle: Flannery O'Connor's vision of history
By: John F. Desmond.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Knowledge -- History; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; History in literature
Description: Desmond sets O'Connor's thought and work in the broad context of cultural and intellectual history. He argues that her orthodox catholic theology stands at the center of her vision, and provides a metaphysical base from which the fiction evolved. Desmond describes O'Connor's uses of imagery and comedy, of the grotesque and the violent, and relates the works to one another and also to the philosophical and theological roots of their creation. He also discusses O'Connor's stated view of fiction-writing as an "incarnational act" and traces changes that appear in her work with the recognition of christian historical vision as her subject and the analogical method as the appropriate strategy. ISBN 0-8203-0945-1 : $18.00.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [127]-132.
Includes index.