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Peculiar crossroads Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction  Cover Image E-book E-book

Peculiar crossroads Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction

O'Gorman, Farrell. (Author).

Summary: In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor.

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  • ISBN: 0807134279 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780807134276 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 259 p.)
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    electronic resource
  • Edition: 1st Louisiana pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

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General Note:
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Multi-User.
Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: "We have had our fall" : malaise and mystery in the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy -- South to Rome : four southern writers and the Catholic revival -- Toward a Catholic theory of fiction : a Christian realism of the "here-and-now" -- Postwar America and the end of the modern South : catastrophes, castaways, new worlds -- Languages of mystery : legacies of O'Connor and Percy in contemporary southern letters.
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Subject: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation
Percy, Walker -- 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
American fiction
American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism
Christian fiction, American
Catholics -- Intellectual life
Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism
Catholics -- Southern States -- Intellectual life
Religion
Literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
American fiction -- Catholic authors
American fiction -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism
Christianity and literature
Southern States -- In literature
Southern States -- Religion
O'Connor, Flannery
Percy, Walker -- 1916-1990
Southern States
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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