Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer
(after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library
of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Forty years
after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original
power and pertinence. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and
her work, this new study by Ralph C. Wood offers one of the finest
introductions available. For those looking to deepen their
appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground.
Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's
stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and
ecclesial condition. He uses O'Connor's work as a window onto its
own regional and religious ethos. Indeed, he argues here that
O'Connor's fiction has lasting, even universal, significance
precisely because it is rooted in the confessional witness of her
Roman Catholicism and in the Christ-haunted character of the
American South.
According to Wood, it is this O'Connor -- the believer and the
Southerner -- who helps us at once to confront the hardest cultural
questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers to them.
His book is thus far more than a critical analysis of O'Connor's
writing; in fact, it is principally devoted to cultural and
theological criticism by way of O'Connor's searing insights into
our time and place.
These are some of the engaging moral and religious questions
that Wood explores: the role of religious fundamentalism in
American culture and in relation to both Protestant liberalism and
Roman Catholicism; the practice of racial slavery and its
continuing legacy in the literature and religion of the South;
thedebate over Southern identity, especially whether it is a
culture rooted in ancient or modern values; the place of preaching
and the sacraments in secular society and dying Christendom; and
the lure of nihilism in contemporary American culture.
Splendidly illuminating both O'Connor herself and the American
mind, Wood's "Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South" will
inform and fascinate a wide range of readers, from lovers of
literature to those seriously engaged with religious history,
cultural analysis, or the American South.
General
| Imprint: |
Alban Books
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
May 2005 |
| First published: |
2004 |
| Authors: |
Ralph C Wood
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8028-2999-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8028-2999-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780802829993 |
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