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Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together a distinguished assembly of O'Connor scholars, four of whom numbered among the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the midcentury political, religious, and social milieu on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention and are rediscovered by new generations of readers.
Relating O'Connor not only to the issues of her day but also to manifest concerns of the early twenty-first century, the essays illumine new horizons of her relevance. The contributors address the sources of O'Connor's concern with existential uncertainty and fear, relating it to the stark political light of the 1950s and 1960s; the church history and theology in which she immersed herself; the satiric eye she cast on humankind, on herself, and on her time; and such social issues as racial inequality that she could not escape despite her preoccupation with the eternal.
In addition to offering a range of observations, the contributors mark the direction of future scholarship on the wry Georgian writer and open new avenues for exploring O'Connor's work.
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"Brevets to Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp who have once again discerned and eliminated a weak spot in southern literary scholarship, this time in the Flannery O'Connor sector. Stemming from a superb group of scholars, the essays published here do not gloss over the sordidness endemic to O'Connor's fictional world; rather they examine its citizens, who have made their world sordid by denying that it has its roots in God's creation."—Lewis A. Lawson, University of Maryland
"Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality extends the boundaries of O'Connor criticism, especially by deepening our understanding of the theological and philosophical foundations of her thought and art"—John F. Desmond, Whitman College
About the Author
Jan Nordby Gretlund is a senior lecturer in American literature at the Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His previous books include Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place; Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-racial, and Existential South; Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence; and, with Tony Badger and Walter Edgar, Southern Landscapes.
Karl-Heinz Westarp recently retired from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, where he chaired the Department of English for more than ten years. Westarp is the author of Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft and Precision and Depth: In Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories. Gretlund and Westarp's previous collections are Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher, The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, and Realist of Distances: Flannery O'Connor Revisited.
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- PublisherUniv of South Carolina Pr
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1570036012
- ISBN 13 9781570036019
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages196
- EditorGretlund Jan Nordby, Westarp Karl-Heinz
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