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Title

Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin : a journey together towards hope and understanding about life / Steven R. Watkins.

Author

Watkins, Steven R. (Steven Robert), 1957-

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Additional Authors

Watkins, Steven R.

Description

viii, 161 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Flannery O'Connor, the renowned short-story writer, lived and fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she sought insightful and helpful sources to alleviate her struggle with the disease. Among these sources were the ideas and thoughts of a Jesuit-paleontologist-mystic by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an individual who opened doors of witness to the secular world and attracted suspicious questioning from his Catholic superiors. Like a moth drawn to a flame, Flannery O'Connor, a devoted Thomist, increasingly admired the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin to the point that she incorporated his ideas into her last six short stories in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book adds significantly to the neglected study of Teilhard de Chardin's influence in the later literary development of Flannery O'Connor. This book would be a valuable asset to students and scholars focusing on American literature, Southern literature, twentieth-century Southern female writers, and Flannery O'Connor."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

American university studies. Series XIX, General literature, 0743-6645 ; v. 37

Subject

• Authors with disabilities > Attitudes
• Christianity and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• O'Connor, Flannery > Religion
• Systemic lupus erythematosus > Patients > United States
• Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre > Influence
• Theology in literature

ISBN

• 1433106663 (alk. paper)
• 9781433106668 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2009016427

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries