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

• Autore: Driskell Leon V.
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1971; ©1971
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5/4
• Soggetto topico: Women and literature - Southern States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BrittainJoan T. <1928-2010, >
• 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
• 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. From an exami
• Titolo autorizzato: The eternal crossroads
• ISBN: 0-8131-6270-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460701903321
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