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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811618103321

Titolo

Dark faith : new essays on Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / / edited by Susan Srigley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012

ISBN

0-268-09279-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SrigleySusan <1967->

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Christianity in literature

Faith in literature

Violence in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dark night, dark faith : Hazel Motes, the Misfit, and Francis Marion Tarwater / Richard Giannone -- The lost childhood of George Rayber / John F. Desmond -- "Not his son" : violent kinship and the spirit of adoption in The violent bear it away / Gary M. Ciuba --  Abstraction and Intimacy in Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / Jason Peters -- Transfiguring affliction : Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor / Ruthann Knechel Johansen -- Only love overcomes violence : The violent bear it away as case studies in theological ethics / Scott Huelin -- "Jesus is the Bread of Life" : Johannine sign and deed in The violent bear It away / P. Travis Kroeker -- Suffering violence in the kingdom of heaven : The violent bear it away / Karl E. Martin -- Asceticism and abundance : the communion of saints in The violent bear it away / Susan Srigley.

Sommario/riassunto

Dark Faith is a collection of essays that study Flannery O'Connor's complex religious vision in her second novel The Violent Bear It Away.