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In "Flannery O'Connor: Hermit Novelist," Richard Giannone, who teaches English at Fordham University, places O'Connor's spiritual and theological perspective alongside the ancient ascetic traditions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth century Egyptian desert. This approach, though carried out in rather academic prose, illuminates O'Connor's bleak world and makes "Hermit Novelist" a very useful book....
In "Flannery O'Connor: Hermit Novelist," Richard Giannone, who teaches English at Fordham University, places O'Connor's spiritual and theological perspective alongside the ancient ascetic traditions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth century Egyptian desert. This approach, though carried out in rather academic prose, illuminates O'Connor's bleak world and makes "Hermit Novelist" a very useful book....
By drawing on what O'Connor says, both explicitly and implicitly, about her serious reading of the early monastic Christian ascetic movement, Giannone makes sense of both of these difficulties. O'Connor, Giannone says, employs a "poetics of solitude." The reader is meant to understand that the solitary emotional and moral wasteland in which O'Connor's characters find themselves is the modern equivalent of the desert in which the ancient Christian solitary sought God. As was true for the early Christian teachers, O'Connor's modern parched and hungry "Abbas and Ammas" also seek God without benefit of the luxuries, comforts, and the easy and callous self-deceptions of the self-serving, loveless civilization they emphatically critique. As solitaries, they struggle, as do the monks, against the temptations and illusions of the devil and of their own pride-filled wills, which, in the words of the desert father Abba Poemen, "have become the demons" for them.
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THIS BOOK STUDIES the importance of desert life and ascetic spirituality in Flannery O'Connor's fiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
desert ascesis, hermit novelist, prideful demon, desert elders, desert teachers, artificial nigger, ancient hermits, desert mothers, primitive solitaries, desert spirituality, desert solitaries, ancient solitaries, good country people, wise blood, desert ascetics, disordered passions, desert tradition, desert call, desert life, private will Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Fortune, The Violent Bear It Away, The Misfit, New York, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Anthony the Great, The Artificial Nigger, The Displaced Person,
THIS BOOK STUDIES the importance of desert life and ascetic spirituality in Flannery O'Connor's fiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
desert ascesis, hermit novelist, prideful demon, desert elders, desert teachers, artificial nigger, ancient hermits, desert mothers, primitive solitaries, desert spirituality, desert solitaries, ancient solitaries, good country people, wise blood, desert ascetics, disordered passions, desert tradition, desert call, desert life, private will Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Fortune, The Violent Bear It Away, The Misfit, New York, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Anthony the Great, The Artificial Nigger, The Displaced Person,