The Resource Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South, Ralph C. Wood
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South, Ralph C. Wood
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- Summary
- Publisher's description: 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 its original power and pertinence. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this new study by Ralph C. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground. Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition. He uses O'Connor's work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. Indeed, he argues here that O'Connor's fiction has lasting, even universal, significance precisely because it is rooted in the confessional witness of her Roman Catholicism and in the Christ-haunted character of the American South. According to Wood, it is this O'Connor--the believer and the Southerner--who helps us at once to confront the hardest cultural questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers to them. His book is thus far more than a critical analysis of O'Connor's writing; in fact, it is principally devoted to cultural and theological criticism by way of O'Connor's searing insights into our time and place. These are some of the engaging moral and religious questions that Wood explores: the role of religious fundamentalism in American culture and in relation to both Protestant liberalism and Roman Catholicism; the practice of racial slavery and its continuing legacy in the literature and religion of the South; the debate over Southern identity, especially whether it is a culture rooted in ancient or modern values; the place of preaching and the sacraments in secular society and dying Christendom; and the lure of nihilism in contemporary American culture. Splendidly illuminating both O'Connor herself and the American mind, Wood's Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South will inform and fascinate a wide range of readers, from lovers of literature to those seriously engaged with religious history, cultural analysis, or the American South
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- The South as a mannered and mysteriously redemptive region
- Preaching as the Southern Protestant sacrament
- Demonic nihilism : the chief moral temptation of modernity
- Vocation : the divine summons to drastic witness
- Climbing into the starry field and shouting hallelujah : Flannery O'Connor's vision of the world to come
- Isbn
- 9780802821171
- Label
- Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South
- Title
- Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South
- Statement of responsibility
- Ralph C. Wood
- Subject
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- Catholics -- Southern States -- Intellectual life
- Christian fiction, American
- Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Christianity and literature
- Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Literature
- 1900-1999
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Religion
- Religion
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- In literature
- trueSouthern States -- Religion
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher's description: 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 its original power and pertinence. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this new study by Ralph C. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground. Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition. He uses O'Connor's work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. Indeed, he argues here that O'Connor's fiction has lasting, even universal, significance precisely because it is rooted in the confessional witness of her Roman Catholicism and in the Christ-haunted character of the American South. According to Wood, it is this O'Connor--the believer and the Southerner--who helps us at once to confront the hardest cultural questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers to them. His book is thus far more than a critical analysis of O'Connor's writing; in fact, it is principally devoted to cultural and theological criticism by way of O'Connor's searing insights into our time and place. These are some of the engaging moral and religious questions that Wood explores: the role of religious fundamentalism in American culture and in relation to both Protestant liberalism and Roman Catholicism; the practice of racial slavery and its continuing legacy in the literature and religion of the South; the debate over Southern identity, especially whether it is a culture rooted in ancient or modern values; the place of preaching and the sacraments in secular society and dying Christendom; and the lure of nihilism in contemporary American culture. Splendidly illuminating both O'Connor herself and the American mind, Wood's Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South will inform and fascinate a wide range of readers, from lovers of literature to those seriously engaged with religious history, cultural analysis, or the American South
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wood, Ralph C
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Christianity and literature
- Christian fiction, American
- Catholics
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Catholics
- Christian fiction, American
- Christianity and literature
- Literature
- Religion
- Southern States
- Label
- Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South, Ralph C. Wood
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 -- The South as a mannered and mysteriously redemptive region -- Preaching as the Southern Protestant sacrament -- Demonic nihilism : the chief moral temptation of modernity -- Vocation : the divine summons to drastic witness -- Climbing into the starry field and shouting hallelujah : Flannery O'Connor's vision of the world to come
- Control code
- ocm54356399
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802821171
- Lccn
- 2004044125
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54356399
- Label
- Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South, Ralph C. Wood
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 -- The South as a mannered and mysteriously redemptive region -- Preaching as the Southern Protestant sacrament -- Demonic nihilism : the chief moral temptation of modernity -- Vocation : the divine summons to drastic witness -- Climbing into the starry field and shouting hallelujah : Flannery O'Connor's vision of the world to come
- Control code
- ocm54356399
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802821171
- Lccn
- 2004044125
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)54356399
Subject
- Catholics -- Southern States -- Intellectual life
- Christian fiction, American
- Christian fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Christianity and literature
- Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Literature
- 1900-1999
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Religion
- Religion
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- In literature
- trueSouthern States -- Religion
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
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