Return to Good & Evil

Informationen zum Autor By Henry T. Edmondson III - Foreword by Marion Montgomery Klappentext Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around her principal concern, that with the nihilistic claim that 'God is dead' the traditional signposts of good and evil have been lost. Edmondson's book demonstrates that the combination of O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius provide the best response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world-a return to 'good and evil' through humility and grace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Faith, Philosophy, and Fiction Chapter 2 O'Connor contra Nihilism Chapter 3 Modern Man as Malgre Lui in Wise Blood Chapter 4 Wise Blood and the Difficult Return to God Chapter 5 "Good Country People" and the Seduction of Nihilism Chapter 6 The Nature of Evil in "The Lame Shall Enter First" Chapter 7 Social Change in "The Enduring Chill" Chapter 8 Modernity versus Mystery in "A View of the Woods" Chapter 9 Redemption and the Ennoblement of Suffering in "The Artificial Nigger" Chapter 10 Grace, the Devil, and the Prophet

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• Authors: Henry T III Edmondson, Henry T. Edmondson, Henry T. III Edmondson, Henry T. Edmondson III, Edmondson III Henry T, Edmondson III Henry T., Henry T Edmonson
• Assisted by: Montgomery Marion (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2005
• EAN: 9780739111055
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1105-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form