03370nam 2200457 450 991016270450332120200518205741.00-8132-2943-X(CKB)3710000001044045(MiAaPQ)EBC4795530(OCoLC)971118975(MdBmJHUP)muse57661(EXLCZ)99371000000104404520170219h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRevelation and convergence Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic intellectual tradition /edited by Mark Bosco, SJ, and Brent LittleWashington, District of Columbia :The Catholic University of America Press,2017.©20171 online resource (254 pages)0-8132-2942-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. O'Connor's prayer journal and the life of faith / Mark Bosco, SJ -- 1. Revelation in history : displaced persons, Léon Bloy, and exegesis of the commonplace / Stephen Schloesser, SJ -- 2. Breaking bodies : O'Connor and the aesthetics of consecration / Michael P. Murphy -- 3. Mysterious heart : Maritain, Mauriac, Chrétien, and O'Connor on the fictional knowledge of others / Stephen E. Lewis -- 4. O'Connor's "pied beauty" : Gerard Manley Hopkins and the aesthetics of difference / Mark Bosco, SJ -- 5. "The baron is in Milledgeville" : Friedrich von Hügel's influence on O'Connor / Michael Bruner -- 6. The "all-demanding eyes" : St. Augustine and the restless seeker / Andrew J. Garavel, SJ -- 7. Mrs. May's dark night in O'Connor's "Greenleaf" / George Piggford, CSC -- 8. O'Connor's unfinished novel : the beginning of a modern saint's life / Jessica Hooten Wilson.Did Flannery O'Connor really write the way she did because and--not in spite of--her Catholicism? Revelation & Convergence brings together professors of literature, theology, and history to help both critics and readers better understand O'Connor's religious imagination. The contributors focus on many of the Catholic thinkers central to O'Connor's creative development, especially those that O'Connor mentioned in the recently discovered and published A Prayer Journal (2013), or in her many letters to friends and admirers. Some, such as Leon Bloy or Baron von Hügel, remain relatively obscure to contemporary readers. Other figures, such as Augustine of Hippo or St. John of the Cross, are well-known, but their connection to O'Connor's stories has received little attention. Revelation & Convergence provides a much-needed hermeneutical lens that is often missing from contemporary criticism, representing O'Connor's ongoing conversation with her Catholic theological and literary heritage, and provide a glimpse into the rich Catholic texture of her life and work.Catholics in literatureChristianity and literatureSouthern StatesCatholics in literature.Christianity and literature809.89287Bosco MarkLittle Brent MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910162704503321Revelation and convergence2890293UNINA