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Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship
Katherine Hemple Prown
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Description for Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship
hardcover. In her short life, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, 32 stories and numerous essays. This work addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. It considers the reasons for feminist critical neglect of the writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
In her short life, the prolific Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, thirty-two stories, and numerous essays and articles. Although her importance as a twentieth-century southern writer is unquestionable, mainstream feminist criticism has generally neglected O'Connor's work. In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a ""southern lady"" and professional author. Placing gender at the center of her analytical framework, Prown considers the reasons for feminist critical neglect of the writer and traces the cultural origins of the complicated aesthetic that informs O'Connor's fiction, both published and unpublished. O'Connor's relationship with her mentor Caroline Gordon, ... Read more
In her short life, the prolific Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, thirty-two stories, and numerous essays and articles. Although her importance as a twentieth-century southern writer is unquestionable, mainstream feminist criticism has generally neglected O'Connor's work. In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a ""southern lady"" and professional author. Placing gender at the center of her analytical framework, Prown considers the reasons for feminist critical neglect of the writer and traces the cultural origins of the complicated aesthetic that informs O'Connor's fiction, both published and unpublished. O'Connor's relationship with her mentor Caroline Gordon, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920122
SKU
V9780813920122
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About Katherine Hemple Prown
KATHERINE HEMPLE PROWN is an independent scholar living in Fox Point, Winconsin.
Reviews for Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship
Revising Flannery O'Connor will extend current scholarship on both an important American writer and twentieth-century American literary history. Placing Flannery O'Connor in the literary world of her moment, this study richly amplifies our understanding of O'Connor's development as an artist, particularly as a female and southern artist, and it sharpens our awareness of what other writers of her generation also ... Read more