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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor /

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor," which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this col...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arant, Alison (Editor ), Cofer, Jordan (Editor ), Gentry, Marshall Bruce (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Recovering interpretative possibilities in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor : an introduction / Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer
  • Part 1: New methodologies. Feather method : rereading O'Connor in the age of the object / Gina Caison ; "God made me thisaway" : crip-queer perspectives on Flannery O'Connor / Bruce Henderson ; The "Failure of . . . compassion" : problematic redemption and the need for praxis in "The lame shall enter first" and "The comforts of home" / Alicia Matheny Beeson ; "The words to say it" : using Flannery O'Connor to reconsider Lacan / Doreen Fowler
  • Part 2: New contexts. Flannery O'Connor's gothic science fiction / Doug Davis ; The trouble with "Innerleckchuls" : Flannery O'Connor, anti-intellectualism, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop / Jordan Cofer ; Country people : depictions of farm women in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction / Monica Carol Miller
  • Part 3: Strange bedfellows. Mystery and myth : Friedrich Nietzsche, Flannery O'Connor, and the limiting power of certainty / William Murray ; Flannery O'Connor and the Fascist business : plurality and the possibility of community / Alison Staudinger ; "Herself but Black" : Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and the "near enemy" of civil rights / Rachel Watson ; Inscrutable zoot suiters and civil rights ambivalence in Flannery O'Connor and Toni Morrison / Alison Arant ; Silence, scalpels, and loupes : reconsidering O'Connor as Sylvia Plath's contemporary / Lindsey Alexander
  • Part 4: O'Connor's legacy. Saint Flannery, approximately : O'Connor and the dogma of creative writing / Eric Bennett ; Flannery O'Connor's real estate : farming intellectual property / Carol Loeb Shloss
  • Afterword / Marshall Bruce Gentry.