These ten essays, seven of which are previously unpublished, reflect the broadening of critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. The essays offer both new directions for, and new insights into, reading O'Connor's fiction. Some essays probe issues that, until recently, had been ignored. Others reshape long-standing debates in light of new critical insights from gender studies, rhetorical theory, dialogism, and psychoanalysis. Topics discussed include O'Connor's early stories, her canonical status, the phenomenon of doubling, the feminist undertones of her stories' grotesqueries, and her self-denial in life and art. Commentary on O'Connor has most often centered on her regional realism and the poetics of her Catholicism. By regarding O'Connor as a major American writer and focusing on the variety of critical approaches that might be taken to her work, these essays dispel the earlier geographic and religious stereotypes and point out new avenues of study.
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Sura P. Rath is a professor of English, and department chair, at Louisiana State University, Shreveport. Mary Neff Shaw is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University, Shreveport.
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I was privileged to be introduced to Flannery O'Connor's works in Dr. Rath's Fiction class at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. At the time, I wasn't aware that Dr. Rath is considered to be one of the most important authorities on O'Connor's work and life. Dr. Rath once told us in class that he would describe his feelings toward O'Connor and her writings as love, and were she alive, he might seriously consider leaving Mrs. Rath for her. Of course, he was joking, but Dr. Rath writes about Flannery O'Connor's work and life with a passion that few can match. Flannery O'Connor is perhaps a greater writer about the South than William Faulkner. She had a life cut short by chronic illness but in her short life she managed to write some of the most memorable stories I've ever read. You will enjoy Dr. Rath's writings about Flannery O'Connor. I encourage you to do an online search for his articles and essays once you have read his book on the subject.
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Just six years after Flannery O'Connor received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, the New American Library issued 234,000 copies of the Signet paperback version of Wise Blood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ascetic dynamics, displacing gender, exhortative discourse, artificial nigger, southern grotesque, wise blood, good country people, thesis stories, transgressive self, petrified man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Willerton, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Fortune, The Crop, New Critical, New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Artificial Nigger, The Violent Bear It Away, New Critics, Dialogic Imagination, Sarah Gordon, Louise Westling, New Criticism, Temple of the Holy Ghost, The Displaced Person, Red Sammy, The Enduring Chill, African Americans, Claire Kahane, Hazel Motes, Red Queen, Eudora Welty, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Miss O'Connor New!
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Just six years after Flannery O'Connor received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, the New American Library issued 234,000 copies of the Signet paperback version of Wise Blood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ascetic dynamics, displacing gender, exhortative discourse, artificial nigger, southern grotesque, wise blood, good country people, thesis stories, transgressive self, petrified man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Willerton, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Fortune, The Crop, New Critical, New York, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Artificial Nigger, The Violent Bear It Away, New Critics, Dialogic Imagination, Sarah Gordon, Louise Westling, New Criticism, Temple of the Holy Ghost, The Displaced Person, Red Sammy, The Enduring Chill, African Americans, Claire Kahane, Hazel Motes, Red Queen, Eudora Welty, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Miss O'Connor New!
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- The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin on 4 pages
- Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor on page 21, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Eight Great American Short Novels by Philip Rahv on page 16, page 32, and Back Matter
- Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith on page 183, page 192, and Back Matter
- Eudora Welty (Mod Crit Views) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by William Golding in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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