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Flannery O'Connor
Sarah Gordon
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Description for Flannery O'Connor
Paperback. Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O'Connor's writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centred church, society and literary background. This text shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O'Connor's Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her reading of Thurber, Poe, Eliot and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New ... Read more
Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O'Connor's writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centred church, society and literary background. This text shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O'Connor's Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her reading of Thurber, Poe, Eliot and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325200
SKU
V9780820325200
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About Sarah Gordon
Sarah Gordon is a professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She has chaired her university's internationally renowned symposia on O'Connor and has been editor of the Flannery O'Connor Bulletin since 1983. Gordon is also editor of the book Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius.
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