| Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction Contributor(s): O'Gorman, Farrell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807133353 ISBN-13: 9780807133354 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $22.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: PECULIAR CROSSROADS explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, the author asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor's WISE BLOOD with Percy's THE MOVIEGOER, and O'Connor's A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND with Percy's LANCELOT. PECULIAR CROSSROADS is an impeccable exercise in literary history and criticism, and renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Library of Southern Civilization |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor's Wise Blood with Percy's The Moviegoer, and O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find with Percy's Lancelot. An impeccable exercise in literary history and criticism, Peculiar Crossroads renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers. |