![]() His book is thus far more than a critical analysis of O'Connor's writing in fact, it is principally devoted to cultural and theological criticism by way of O'Connor's searing insights into our time and place. Indeed, he argues here that O'Connor's fiction has lasting, even universal, significance precisely because it is rooted in the confessional witness of her Roman Catholicism and in the Christ-haunted character of the American South.Īccording to Wood, it is this O'Connor - the believer and the Southerner - who helps us at once to confront the hardest cultural questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers to them. ![]() ![]() He uses O'Connor's work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this study by Ralph C. Fifty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. ![]() Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. ![]()
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