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

Title
Peculiar crossroads : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction / Farrell O'Gorman.
Author
O'Gorman, Farrell.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.

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Description
ix, 259 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Southern literary studies
Subject
  • 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
Note
  • Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 05-724
ISBN
0807129887 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004011064
OCLC
55208449
Author
O'Gorman, Farrell.
Title
Peculiar crossroads : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction / Farrell O'Gorman.
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
Series
Southern literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 05-724
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