Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque

by Marshall Bruce Gentry

Book Overview

This assessment of a major southern writer's work offers a revisionist view of her characters, who in the past twenty-five years of critical attention too often and too easily have been labeled grotesque.

O'Connor's stories and novels are usually considered mere dramatizations of her stated orthodox religious commitments. According to the predominant view, the typical O'Connor work consists of a set of corrupt characters and an authoritative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578068657
• ISBN13: 9781578068654
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"