Flannery O'Connor : The Imagination of Extremity by Frederick Asals (1982, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820305928
ISBN-139780820305929
eBay Product ID (ePID)4796127
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameFlannery O'connor : the Imagination of Extremity
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWomen Authors, American / General
Publication Year1982
TypeTextbook
AuthorFrederick Asals
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN81-010513
Reviews"An impressive piece of scholarship, with an abundance of informative notes. Asals' assertions are invariably provocative, and the essentially severe view of O'Connor is a valuable corrective to the sentimentalized Christian humanist theory."-- American Literature, "Asals's study is an investigation of the dynamics of O'Connor's imagination, and as such it is one of the most complex, challenging, and intellectually exciting studies of her work yet to appear. . . . A superb and penetrating analysis."-- Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, "To my taste, the most impressive book [of O'Connor criticism] published to date. . . . Asals is especially helpful because, unlike the horde of critics who expound a static deductive vision on O'Connor's part, he traces her growth toward the relative serenity of her later work."-- New York Review of Books, "The best book yet written on Flannery O'Connor, not only scholarly, useful, and intelligent, but written with a clarity and grace rare in critical prose. It is an impressive achievement."-- Modern Fiction Studies
SynopsisThis study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge , O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.
LC Classification NumberPS3565.C57.Z52 1982
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