Flannery O'Connor in the age of terrorism
Subtitle: essays on violence and grace
By: edited by Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781572336988
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Reading O'Connor's Violence; title: And the Violent Bear It Away: O'Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism / Anthony Di Renzo; title: The Violence of Technique and the Technique of Violence / Christina Bieber Lake; title: God may Strike You Thisaway: Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil on Affliction and Joy / Ralph C. Wood; title: Eating the Bread of Life: Muted Violence in the Violent Bear It Away / J. Ramsey Michaels; title: Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in O'Connor's A Stroke of Good Fortune / Linda Naranjo-Huebl; title: Part 2: Connecting O'Connor's Violence; title: Gory Stories: O'Connor and American Horror / Jon Lance Bacon; title: All the Dead Bodies: O'Connor and Noir / William Brevda; title: How the Symbol Means: Deferral vs. Confrontation in The Sound and the Fury and The Artificial Nigger / John D. Sykes Jr.; title: Violence, Nature, and Prophecy in Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy / Farrell O'Gorman; title: Shiftlet's Choice: O'Connor's Fordist Love Story / Doug Davis; title: Part 3: Theorizing O'Connor's Violence; title: O'Connor as Miscegenationist / Marshall Bruce Gentry; title: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Problems in Interpreting the Life of Flannery O'Connor / W.A. Sessions; title: Confinement and Violence, Flannery and Foucault / William Monroe; title: On Belief, Conflict, and Universality: Flannery O'Connor, Walter Benn Michaels and Slavoj Zizek / Thomas F. Haddox; title: Everything That Rises Does Not Converge: The State of O'Connor Studies / Robert Donahoo