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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820253003321

Autore

Driskell Leon V. <1932->

Titolo

The eternal crossroads : the art of Flannery O'Connor / / Leon V. Driskell, Joan T. Brittain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Ky. : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1971

©1971

ISBN

0-8131-6270-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Disciplina

813/.5/4

Soggetti

Women and literature - Southern States - History - 20th century

Southern States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: The Eternal Crossroads; CHAPTER TWO: Specific Influences: Mauriac, Hawthorne, & West; CHAPTER THREE: 'Wise Blood' & What Came Before; CHAPTER FOUR: The Expanded Vision: From the Tower of Babel to Vicarious Atonement; CHAPTER FIVE: A Second Navel & Related Stories; CHAPTER SIX: The Posthumous Collection; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Flannery O'Connor was a writer of extraordinary power and virtuosity. Her strong supple prose blends humor, pathos, satire, and grotesquerie which leads the reader to the evil at the center of the self's labyrinth. There, she confronts that evil with originality and power, pulling the reader into consideration of the terrifying dependencies of love in the recesses of the heart.This study focuses on Flannery O'Connor's sense of the coincidence of the eternal and cosmic with worldly time and place -- ""the eternal crossroads"" -- and how that sense controls and infuses her fiction.