Flannery O'Connor

These ten essays, seven of which are previously unpublished, reflect the broadening of critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. The essays offer both new directions for, and new insights into, reading O'Connor's fiction. Some essays probe issues that, until recently, had been ignored. Others reshape long-standing debates in light of new critical insights from gender studies, rhetorical theory, dialogism, and psychoanalysis. Topics discussed include O'Connor's early stories, her canonical status, the phenomenon of doubling, the feminist undertones of her stories' grotesqueries, and her self-denial in life and art. Commentary on O'Connor has most often centered on her regional realism and the poetics of her Catholicism. By regarding O'Connor as a major American writer and focusing on the variety of critical approaches that might be taken to her work, these essays dispel the earlier geographic and religious stereotypes and point out new avenues of study.

Author: Mary Neff Shaw
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780820318042

About the Author
Sura P. Rath (Editor)
SURA P. RATH is a professor of English, and department chair, at Louisiana State University, Shreveport.

Mary Neff Shaw (Editor)
MARY NEFF SHAW is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University, Shreveport.