Flannery Oconnor The Imagination Of Extremity
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| Author | : Frederick Asals |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820305928 |
This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge, O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.
| Author | : Frederick Asals |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2011-03-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820340278 |
This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge, O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.
| Author | : Donald E. Hardy |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of, in literature |
| ISBN | : 9781570034756 |
It also, he maintains, allows readers to appreciate the mysteries O'Connor sought to underscore.".
| Author | : R. Neil Scott |
| Publisher | : Timberlane Books |
| Total Pages | : 1098 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780971542808 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Women and literature |
| ISBN | : 9781617033957 |
An essential book for critical study of the works of Flannery O'Connor. "The best study of one of the best writers"--Robert Fitzgerald
| Author | : Christina Bieber Lake |
| Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780865549432 |
The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d'art, child protagonists, and embodied images, Lake describes how O'Connor's fiction actively resisted romantic theories of the imagination and religious life by highlighting the epistemological necessity of the body. Ultimately O'Connor challenges the romantic and modern notion of the artist as a fire-stealing Prometheus and replaces it with a notion of the artist as a locally committed craftsman. Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin's early essays in Art and Answerability and Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Lake illustrates O'Connor's conviction that art deliberately assigns the highest value of transcendental beauty to those beings least valued by the modern world, and challenges us to do the same. The book culminates with an original reading of Parker's Back that shows how in art, as in life, true knowledge comes to us through our own grotesque bodies and those of others. Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter anew the world as more than what the intellect can unravel.
| Author | : Donald E. Hardy |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781570036989 |
This is a reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a close quantitative examination of the interactions of grammatical voice and physical bodies in her texts. Bridging literary theory and linguistics, Hardy demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice - roughly indicating that the subject is acting upon himself or herself. productive approach to understanding O'Connor's use of the body and its parts in her explorations of the sacramental and the grotesque. Linguistic analysis of grammatical middle voice is coupled with quantitative analysis of body-part words and the collocations in which they appear to present a new point of entrance to understanding O'Connor's stylistic manipulations of the body as central to the rift between spirit and matter. Through this method of reading O'Connor, Hardy makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of work that is introducing linguistic terminology and concepts into literary studies.
| Author | : Connie Ann Kirk |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Reference (Philosophy) in literature |
| ISBN | : 143810846X |
Examines the life and writings of Flannery O'Connor, including detailed synopses of her works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.
| Author | : Rachel Toombs |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2022-10-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1666725641 |
Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism explores the impact style has not only on a story's meaning, but on the reading experience. O'Connor's sparingly wrought stories, particularly in their climactic moments of divine disclosure, invite characters and readers alike into invitations of graced encounters that often wound even as they bless. Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism draws out the force and vulnerability in reading spare stories of graced encounters by identifying a kinship with a much older form of storytelling: biblical Hebrew narrative. Focusing on the climactic scenes of O'Connor's Wise Blood and Genesis 32's account of Jacob's nighttime wrestling, Rachel Toombs offers a fresh take on the theological impact of spare narration. These stories invite readers into a posture akin to prayer where in an uncluttered space we see ourselves as we truly are and there meet God.
| Author | : Richard Giannone |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2012-09-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1611172276 |
2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A compelling study of O'Connor's fiction as illuminated by the teaching of the desert monastics. "Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive time she developed a fascination with fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment and whose isolation, suffering, and faith mirrored her own. In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics and the ways in which she infused her fiction with their teachings. Surveying the influences of the desert fathers on O'Connor's protagonists, Giannone shows how her characters are moved toward a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of confronting both internal and worldly evils while being drawn closer to God. Artfully bridging literary analysis, O'Connor's biography, and monastic writings, Giannone's study explores O'Connor's advocacy of self-denial and self-scrutiny as vital spiritual weapons that might be brought to bear against the antagonistic forces she found rampant in modern American life.
