Peculiar crossroads : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction / Farrell O'Gorman.

Author/creator O'Gorman, Farrell
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionix, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
Christianity and literature--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
American fiction--Catholic authors. --History and criticism.
American fiction--Southern States. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Christian fiction, American--History and criticism.
Catholics--Southern States. --Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States--Religion.

SeriesSouthern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900
Contents "We have had our fall" : malaise and mystery in the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy -- South to Rome : four southern writers and the Catholic revival -- Toward a Catholic theory of fiction : a Christian realism of the "here-and-now" -- Postwar America and the end of the modern South : catastrophes, castaways, new worlds -- Languages of mystery : legacies of O'Connor and Percy in contemporary southern letters.
General noteBased on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.
LCCN 2004011064
ISBN0807129887 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3565.C57 Z813 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold