Description
Manners, mystery, and maniacs in O'Connor's unforgettable fiction
Describing Flannery O'Connor's fiction as "violent, grotesque, and horribly funny, with a twist," Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed its readers. In a comprehensive survey that encompasses O'Connor's short stories, novels, essays, and letters, as well as the body of criticism that has proliferated since her death in 1964, Whitt illumines the religious themes and bizarre characters that make O'Connor's prose so strikingly different from that of other American writers.
Whitt discusses the components that drive the writer's work--her southernness and her Roman Catholicism--and contends that the blend of these two enabled O'Connor to deliver orthodox Christian themes through the code of southern etiquette.
Author: Margaret Earley Whitt
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 10/01/1997
Pages: 259
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 6.95h x 5.01w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9781570032257
ISBN10: 1570032254
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | American | General
About the Author
Margaret Early Whitt is an associate professor and director of the first-year English program at the University of Denver.