Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft : A Synoptic Variorum Edition of : The Geranium, an Exile in the East, Getting Home, Judgement Day (Southern Literary Series) [Paperback]

Karl-Heinz Westarp (Editor) (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 1993

This book is a synoptic variorum edition of four short stories by Flannery O'Connor: "The Geranium," "An Exile in the East," "Getting Home"--a heretofore unpublished version of what later became "Judgement Day"--and "Judgement Day" itself. Since these short stories are rewritings of the same basic material, the manuscripts give us unique access to O'Connor's evolution and development as an artist from her first publication in 1946 to the very last in 1964 ("Judgement Day"). This variorum edition initiates, by means of its synoptic arrangement, a new form of O'Connor research which permits a much easier analysis and comparison of textual variants in the manuscripts. This study is complemented by a biographical and analytical introduction that sheds considerable light on O'Connor's creative skills. Highly recommended for O'Connor specialists and students of the American short story.

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Karl-Heinz Westarp is currently Professor of English and chairman of the English Department at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has published extensively on Flannery O'Connor and American writers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Summa Publications (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0917786920
• ISBN-13: 978-0917786921
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft : A Synoptic Variorum Edition of : The Geranium, an Exile in the East, Getting Home, Judgement Day (Southern Literary Series) (Paperback)

Westarp offers readers a synoptic variorum edition of four of Flannery O'Connor's stories: "The Geranium" (1946), "An Exile in the East" (1954), "Getting Home" (1964) and "Judgement Day" (1964).

Declares that because the four are rewritings of much of the same material, the synoptic, collated arrangement offers readers an opportunity to compare various sections of text and to "follow at close range O'Connor's artistic development from beginning to end."

The stories are preceded by Westarp's thirty-one page Introduction, which describes the manuscripts for each story in the Flannery O'Connor Collection of the Ina Dillard Russell Library at Georgia College & State University, the publication history of each story, and an outline of significant differences between them.

R. Neil Scott / Middle Tennessee State University