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'''Flannery O'Connor''' (1925-64), was an [[American]] [[writer]] famous for her stories about Catholic life in the South. She is known for his strong imagination, unflintching moral vision, and brilliant literary style. Her stories combine the grotesque and the gothic, treating contemporary Southern rural life in terms of stark, brutal comedy and violent tragedy. She had been acclaimed by conservatives. | '''Flannery O'Connor''' (1925-64), was an [[American]] [[writer]] famous for her stories about Catholic life in the South. She is known for his strong imagination, unflintching moral vision, and brilliant literary style. Her stories combine the grotesque and the gothic, treating contemporary Southern rural life in terms of stark, brutal comedy and violent tragedy. She had been acclaimed by conservatives. | ||
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| + | O'Connor's situated her conceptions of Catholic beliefs and practices into her fictional renderings of a Southern religious landscape. O'Connor wanted to reveal the reality of evil to an audience lost in a secular age. O'Connor was like [[John Henry Newman]] in her dialectic understanding of an interaction of presences in the world, one "diabolical" and the other "sacred." In her short story "Parker's Back," O'Connor was interested in the union of body and soul as elaborated by [[Thomas Aquinas]]. In "The Violent Bear It Away," O'Connor uses "displaced sacraments" to reveal the Incarnation of Christ in seemingly perverse characters and contexts. She also used Protestant fundamentalist theology, as in the "The River" where Harry Ashfield is baptized by drowning. <ref> See McMullen and Peede, eds. ''Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor'' (2007)</ref> | ||
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==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
* Michael M. Jordan. "Flannery O'Connor's Writings: A Guide for the Perplexed," ''Modern Age'' Volume 47, Number 1; Winter 2005 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/47_01/jordan.pdf onlineedition] | * Michael M. Jordan. "Flannery O'Connor's Writings: A Guide for the Perplexed," ''Modern Age'' Volume 47, Number 1; Winter 2005 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/47_01/jordan.pdf onlineedition] | ||
| + | * Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede, eds. ''Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, | ||
| + | and the Sacred in Her Fiction;; (Mercer University Press, 2007). ix + 233 pp. essays by 10 scholars | ||
| + | ====notes==== | ||
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Revision as of 01:33, December 9, 2008
Flannery O'Connor (1925-64), was an American writer famous for her stories about Catholic life in the South. She is known for his strong imagination, unflintching moral vision, and brilliant literary style. Her stories combine the grotesque and the gothic, treating contemporary Southern rural life in terms of stark, brutal comedy and violent tragedy. She had been acclaimed by conservatives.
Religion
O'Connor's situated her conceptions of Catholic beliefs and practices into her fictional renderings of a Southern religious landscape. O'Connor wanted to reveal the reality of evil to an audience lost in a secular age. O'Connor was like John Henry Newman in her dialectic understanding of an interaction of presences in the world, one "diabolical" and the other "sacred." In her short story "Parker's Back," O'Connor was interested in the union of body and soul as elaborated by Thomas Aquinas. In "The Violent Bear It Away," O'Connor uses "displaced sacraments" to reveal the Incarnation of Christ in seemingly perverse characters and contexts. She also used Protestant fundamentalist theology, as in the "The River" where Harry Ashfield is baptized by drowning. [1]
Further reading
- Michael M. Jordan. "Flannery O'Connor's Writings: A Guide for the Perplexed," Modern Age Volume 47, Number 1; Winter 2005 onlineedition
- Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede, eds. Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental,
and the Sacred in Her Fiction;; (Mercer University Press, 2007). ix + 233 pp. essays by 10 scholars
notes
- ↑ See McMullen and Peede, eds. Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor (2007)