New Essays on Wise Blood

Four essays which use new approaches to explore this familiar work of a ???classic??? American author.

List of contents

1. Introduction Michael Kreyling; 2. A fondness for supermarkets: Wise Blood and consumer culture Jon Lance Bacon; 3. Framed in the gaze: haze, Wise Blood and Lacanian reading James Mellard; 4. 'Jesus stab me in the heart!': Wise Blood wounding and sacramental aesthetics Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr; 5. The woman without any bones: anti-angel aggression in Wise Blood Patricia Smith Yeager; Notes.

Summary

This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only questions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic' but launches a new inquiry into the nature and history of O'Connor's critical reputation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Emory Elliot (Editor), Michael Kreyling (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.1995
• EAN: 9780521445504
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44550-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: American Novel (Hardcover); The American Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000