Wingless chickens, bayou Catholics, and pilgrim wayfarers
Subtitle: constructions of audience and tone in O'Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy
By: L. Lamar Nisly
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780881462142
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Flannery O'Connor: the writer as prophet to wingless chickens; title: O'Connor's surprisingly surprising fiction; title: Tim Gautreaux: the writer as companion to bayou Catholics; title: Gautreaux's tales of humor and moral choices; title: Walker Percy: the writer as diagnostic canary to pilgrim wayfarers; title: Percy's edgy satiric fiction; title: Conclusion.