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The Christ-Haunted Landscape

2009-11-12 Fiction
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Release : 2009-11-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Christ-Haunted Landscape by : Susan Ketchin

Download or read book The Christ-Haunted Landscape written by Susan Ketchin. This book was released on 2009-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work. A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: “By and large,” she said, “people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.” Guided by O'Connor's perceptive commentary about southerners in general, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that mirrors the pervasive role of religion in the literature by the recent generation of notable southern writers. Ketchin confirms that “old-time religion” remains a potent force in the literature of the contemporary South.

Mystery and Manners

1969 Fiction
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Release : 1969
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 920/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mystery and Manners by : Flannery O'Connor

Download or read book Mystery and Manners written by Flannery O'Connor. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection shows Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary versatility and expertise as a practitioner of the essayistic form. The book opens with "The King of the Birds", her famous account of raising peacocks. There are three essays on regional writing, two on teaching literature, and four on the writer and religion. Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are gems, and their value to the contemporary reader -- and writer -- is inestimable. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Comedy of Redemption

1988 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1988
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 867/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Comedy of Redemption by : Ralph C. Wood

Download or read book The Comedy of Redemption written by Ralph C. Wood. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing theology with literary criticism, this work explores the comic vision in the works of four American novelists, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike and Peter De Vries.

A Prayer Journal

2013-11-12 Religion
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Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 696/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Prayer Journal by : Flannery O'Connor

Download or read book A Prayer Journal written by Flannery O'Connor. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, A Prayer Journal is a rare portal into the interior life of the great writer. Not only does it map O'Connor's singular relationship with the divine, but it shows how entwined her literary desire was with her yearning for God. "I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually . . . I do not want to be lonely all my life but people only make us lonelier by reminding us of God. Dear God please help me to be an artist, please let it lead to You." O'Connor could not be more plain about her literary ambition: "Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted," she writes. Yet she struggles with any trace of self-regard: "Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story." As W. A. Sessions, who knew O'Connor, writes in his introduction, it was no coincidence that she began writing the stories that would become her first novel, Wise Blood, during the years when she wrote these singularly imaginative Christian meditations. Including a facsimile of the entire journal in O'Connor's own hand, A Prayer Journal is the record of a brilliant young woman's coming-of-age, a cry from the heart for love, grace, and art.

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

2005-05-02 Fiction
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Release : 2005-05-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by : Ralph C. Wood

Download or read book Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South written by Ralph C. Wood. This book was released on 2005-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.

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