Gordon, Sarah
Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination
- ISBN 13:
- 9780820325200
- author:
- Gordon, Sarah
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- The University of Georgia Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2003
- Pages:
- 296
- Dimensions:
- 22.4 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination is a thought-provoking exploration of the writer's inner struggles and creative tensions. Sarah Gordon examines how Flannery O'Connor's imagination resisted the expectations imposed by her male-centered world, leading to fiction that is both disturbing and haunting. Gordon delves into O'Connor's Catholicism, upbringing, literary background, and schooling in New Criticism, shedding fresh light on the writer's unique perspective. The book draws on O'Connor's fiction, letters, and essays, as well as the lives and works of other southern writers, to reveal the creative struggles behind her literary masterpieces. This insightful study offers a nuanced understanding of Flannery O'Connor's complex and influential body of work, including Wise Blood and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find".
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