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Flannery O'Connor in the age of terrorism : essays on violence and grace /

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'Connor's time, the threats came from different sources - World War...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hewitt, Avis, Donahoo, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.