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Return to good and evil : Flannery O'Connor's response to Nihilism

Title
Return to good and evil : Flannery O'Connor's response to Nihilism / Henry T. Edmondson, III.
Author
Edmondson, Henry T., 1955-
Publication
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Lexington Books, c2002.

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Description
xvii, 203 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Return to good & evil
  • Flannery O'Connor's response to Nihilism
Subject
  • O'Connor, Flannery > Views on good and evil
  • O'Connor, Flannery > Philosophy
  • Nihilism (Philosophy) in literature
  • Good and evil in literature
  • Nihilism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-197) and index.
Contents
Faith, philosophy, and fiction -- O'Connor contra Nihilism -- Modern man as malgre lui in wise blood -- Wise blood and the difficult return to God -- "Good country people" and the seduction of Nihilism -- The nature of evil in "The lame shall enter first" -- Social change in "The enduring chill" -- Modernity versus mystery in "A view of the woods" -- Redemption and the ennoblement of suffering in "The artificial nigger" -- Grace, the Devil, and the prophet.
Call Number
JFE 02-20692
ISBN
0739104217 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2002004881
OCLC
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Author
Edmondson, Henry T., 1955-
Title
Return to good and evil : Flannery O'Connor's response to Nihilism / Henry T. Edmondson, III.
Imprint
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Lexington Books, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-197) and index.
Other Title
Return to good & evil
Research Call Number
JFE 02-20692
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