About this title: For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.
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Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Pictorial Softcover
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780802829993ISBN:0802829996
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. : An admirably lively study of that particular mix of fundamentalist fire and Southern riotousness underlying O'Connor's work of fiction....Without undue sermonizing, this book does double duty as a readable guide to the theological bases of sin and salvation in O'Connor's fiction, and as a tribute to how bravely and viscerally O'Connor's voice speaks to whatever-or whoever-swings in the backs of our twenty-first-century minds. {The Virginia Quarterly Review}. ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Date Published: 2005-08-04
ISBN-13:9780802829993ISBN:0802829996
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Eerdmans
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780802829993ISBN:0802829996
Description: pp. 272. Type of binding: Paperback Details: Discounted new copy. This book is located at our second store; please anticipate extra delivery time. read more
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780802829993ISBN:0802829996
Description: Near Fine. 8vo. 272 pp. Great condition. Edges gently worn. Tight binding, clean interior. Includes: A Roman Catholic at hOme in the Fundamentalist South; The Burden of Southern History and the Presence of Eternity within Time; The Problem of the Color Line: Race and Religion in Flannery O'Connor's South, etc. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WILLIAM B EERDMAN CO
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780802829993ISBN:0802829996
Description: New. Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Forty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains i... read more
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"Delectable literary criticism. Wood not only gives insightful interpretations of O'Connor's key works, but also sets her life and work in historical, theological and regional context. Thus, one learns much about Modernism along the way.
While reading, I spent much of my time musing on whether O'Connor is an exemplary or extraordinary literary figure. Is she a good model for someone who wishes to pursue life as a Christian and artist? I've always thought of her as a person I'd like to emulate. After reading this, I came to the conclusion that while she's a good model in many ways, it would be hard to follow her example for a few reasons:
1- She has a strong, decisive personality few have. 2- Her work responds to Modernism, an age that has passed. While she is certainly a good model in the way she understood her time, reading its best philosophers and theologians, we live in a different time and it would not work well to use the same methods and exact same message today. 3- She spent 15 years preparing for her death after being diagnosed with lupus, and this gave her an unusually focused life.
She is admirable in her disciplined craft, understanding of her age, devotion to God, and overall spunk. But I think to say "I want to be a writer like Flannery O'Connor" (as I've often silently wished) overlooks fundamental differences."
"Interesting for its summation of Southern thought about slavery. I'm sure I learned about the defense before, but it always seems so indefensible. Wood points out that the Southern line of thinking was a Marxist one, and one remarkably similar to the reasoning behind the Japanese invasion of China in WWII (the world operates on the basis of hierarchies, and it is the responsibility of those higher to guide/protect the lower).
However, I didn't agree with Wood's analysis of O'Connor's work, especially his thoughts on one of my favorites, "The River." Wood warns against reading O'Connor's religious content too simplistically in the beginning of the book, but I think that's exactly what he does when he paints the old man who tries to prevent "Bevel" from drowning as receiving O'Connor's scorn. I read Bevel's final baptism as much more nuanced than simply "good," and I've always felt a sympathy from O'Connor with the old man who seems to be the middle ground between the babysitter and "Bevel's" parents."
"As a member of the traditional church who is used to criticisms of evangelical folly, I was fascinated by a biography of this Roman Catholic woman in the very (very) Baptist South."
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