| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Reading O'Connor's Violence -- And the Violent Bear It Away: O'Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism / Anthony Di Renzo -- The Violence of Technique and the Technique of Violence / Christina Bieber Lake -- God may Strike You Thisaway: Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil on Affliction and Joy / Ralph C. Wood -- Eating the Bread of Life: Muted Violence in the Violent Bear It Away / J. Ramsey Michaels -- Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life in O'Connor's A Stroke of Good Fortune / Linda Naranjo-Huebl -- Part 2: Connecting O'Connor's Violence -- Gory Stories: O'Connor and American Horror / Jon Lance Bacon -- All the Dead Bodies: O'Connor and Noir / William Brevda -- How the Symbol Means: Deferral vs. Confrontation in The Sound and the Fury and The Artificial Nigger / John D. Sykes Jr. -- Violence, Nature, and Prophecy in Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy / Farrell O'Gorman -- Shiftlet's Choice: O'Connor's Fordist Love Story / Doug Davis -- Part 3: Theorizing O'Connor's Violence -- O'Connor as Miscegenationist / Marshall Bruce Gentry -- The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Problems in Interpreting the Life of Flannery O'Connor / W.A. Sessions -- Confinement and Violence, Flannery and Foucault / William Monroe -- On Belief, Conflict, and Universality: Flannery O'Connor, Walter Benn Michaels and Slavoj Zizek / Thomas F. Haddox -- Everything That Rises Does Not Converge: The State of O'Connor Studies / Robert Donahoo. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s time, the threats came from different sources and mdash;World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict and mdash;but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a and ldquo;time of terror. and rdquo; The first major critical volume on Flannery O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s work in more than a decade, Flannery O and rsquo;Connor in the Age of Terrorism explores issues of violence, evil, and terror and mdash;themes that were never far from O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s reach and that seem particularly relevant to our present-day setting. The fifteen essays collected here offer a wide range of perspectives that explore our changing views of violence in a post-9/11 world and inform our understanding of a writer whose fiction abounds in violence. Written by both established and emerging scholars, the pieces that editors Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo have selected offer a compelling and varied picture of this iconic author and her work. Included are comparisons of O and rsquo;Connor to 1950s writers of noir literature and to the contemporary American novelist Cormac McCarthy; cultural studies that draw on horror comics of the Cold War and on Fordism and the American mythos of the automobile; and pieces that shed new light on O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s complex religious sensibility and its role in her work. While continuing to speak fresh truths about her own time, O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s fiction also resonates deeply with the postmodern sensibilities of audiences increasingly distant from her era and mdash;readers absorbed in their own terrors and sense of looming, ineffable threats. This provocative new collection presents O and rsquo;Connor and rsquo;s work as a touchstone for understanding where our culture has been and where we are now. With its diverse approaches, Flannery O and rsquo;Connor in the Age of Terrorism will prove useful not only to scholars and students of literature but to anyone interested in history, popular culture, theology, and reflective writing. Avis Hewitt has published articles in Flannery O and rsquo;Connor Review, Christianity and Literature, and Renascence. She is associate professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Robert Donahoo is professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has published articles in Flannery O and rsquo;Connor Review, Literature and Belief, Journal of Contemporary Thought, and Journal of the Short Story in English. |
| Subject |
O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.
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O'Connor, Flannery. (OCoLC)fst00044233
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Violence in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Violence in literature. (OCoLC)fst01167282
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Hewitt, Avis.
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Donahoo, Robert.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Flannery O'Connor in the age of terrorism. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572336988 (DLC) 2009045368 (OCoLC)461324228 |
| ISBN |
9781572337084 (electronic bk.) |
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1572337087 (electronic bk.) |
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