Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination - Hardcover

Gordon, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820322032 ISBN 13: 9780820322032

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2000

Synopsis

A study of Flannery O'Connor, revealing a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. It offers perspectives on her Catholicism, her upbringing, her readings of arguably misogynistic authors, and her schooling in the New Criticism.

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Review:

"A must-read for its undaunted exploration of critical questions most O'Connor scholars evade rather than plumb, including O'Connor's possible racism, quasi-Manichaeanism, ambivalent depictions of women, denigration of human relationships, and creative grappling with the expectations of patriarchy."--"Virginia Quarterly Review"

About the Author:

Sarah Gordon is a professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She has chaired her university's internationally renowned symposia on O'Connor and has been editor of the Flannery O'Connor Bulletin since 1983. Gordon is also editor of the book Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0820322032
• ISBN 13: 9780820322032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296