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A political companion to Flannery O'Connor /

Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Edmondson, Henry T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Henry T. Edmondson III
  • part I. O'Connor's Politics
  • 1. Flannery O'Connor and the agrarians : authentic religion and Southern identity / John D. Sykes Jr.
  • 2. "These Jesuits work fast" : O'Connor's elusive politics / Benjamin B. Alexander
  • 3. Desegregation and the silent character in O'Connor's "Everything that rises must converge" / Michael L. Schroeder
  • 4. The pivotal year, 1963 : Flannery O'Connor and the civil rights movement / Margaret Earley Whitt
  • part II. Kindred spirits
  • 5. Flannery O'Connor, Friedrich von Hügel, and "this modernist business" / George Piggford, C.S.C.
  • 6. Flannery O'Connor, the left-wing mystic, and the German Jew : a reconsideration / Sarah Gordon
  • 7. Sacramental suffering : the friendship of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Hester / Ralph C. Wood
  • 8. Flannery O'Connor as Baroque artist : theological and literary strategies / Mark Bosco, S.J.
  • part III. O'Connor and modernity
  • 9. O'Connor and the rhetoric of eugenics : misfits, the "unfit," and us / Farrell O'Gorman
  • 10. "School for sanctity" : O'Connor, Illich, and the politics of benevolence / Gary M. Ciuba
  • 11. "He thinks he's Jesus Christ!" : Flannery O'Connor, Russell Kirk, and the problem of misguided humanitarianism / Henry T. Edmondson III
  • 12. Flannery O'Connor and political community in "the displaced person" / John Roos
  • 13. Future Flannery, or, how a hillbilly Thomist can help us navigate the politics of personhood in the twenty-first century / Christina Bieber Lake
  • IV. Beyond politics
  • 14. In defense of being : Flannery O'Connor and the politics of art / John F. Desmond
  • 15. Flannery O'Connor, Eric Voegelin, and the question that lies between them / Marion Montgomery.