Title
Flannery O'Connor : Voice of the Peacock / Kathleen Feeley.
ISBN
9780823295524
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (216 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823295524 doi
Summary
My book aims to help readers understand and appreciate O'Connor's novels and short stories. It weaves together her "place"-Milledgeville, Georgia; her purpose-to write a good story; and her preoccupations-belief, death, grace, and the devil. I explicate the influences that give depth to her fiction: her understanding and respect for the mores of the South ( including relationships between races), the books she read and marked that reveal links to her own philosophy and literary skill, and her deep religious convictions. Today, our encounters with the "other," the different one, elicit fear and lead to violence from us, as individuals and as nations. For O'Connor, the "other" is a distorted image of God. Her stories show how this distortion calls forth God's grace, and the violence in her stories enables her characters to discover their true selves. Her unique blend of talent and convictions allows her to create stories with long extensions of meaning. In our era of "quick reads," O'Connor's fiction leads us to a more contemplative mode of reading. When we finish one of her stories, we have experienced the intellectual pleasure of a finely-wrought artifact, and we also have much to think about: belief, death, grace, and the devil. Not a bad combination, that!
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Frontmatter
Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE
I CARVED WOODEN SPECTACLES: the vision of Flannery O'Connor
II HULGA'S WOODEN LEG: the creation of a false self
III THE "NEW JESUS": alienated modern man
IV THE BLACK PROCESSION: death in the context of history
V THE "ARTIFICIAL NIGGER": the numinous quality of reality
VI THE TATTOOED CHRIST: a prophet's view of reality
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
