Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led
Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much
of the tension that drives O'Connor's writing, says Sarah Gordon,
stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the
obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and
literary background.
Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination shows us a writer
whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and
creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on
O'Connor's Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class
southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other
arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New
Criticism.
As Gordon leads us through a world premised on expectations at
odds with O'Connor's strong and original imagination, she ranges
across all of O'Connor's fiction and many of her letters and
essays. While acknowledging O'Connor's singular situation, Gordon
also gleans insights from the lives and works of other southern
writers, Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, and Margaret Mitchell among
them.
Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination draws on Sarah
Gordon's thirty years of reading, teaching, and discussing one of
our most complex and influential authors. It takes us closer than
we have ever been to the creative struggles behind such literary
masterpieces as Wise Blood and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
General
Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2003 |
First published: |
March 2003 |
Authors: |
Sarah Gordon
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
296 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-2520-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8203-2520-1 |
Barcode: |
9780820325200 |
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