{"product_id":"flannery-oconnor-the-obedient-imagination-paperback","title":"Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O'Connor's writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O'Connor's Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New Criticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Gordon leads us through a world premised on expectations at odds with O'Connor's strong and original imagination, she ranges across all of O'Connor's fiction and many of her letters and essays. While acknowledging O'Connor's singular situation, Gordon also gleans insights from the lives and works of other southern writers, Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, and Margaret Mitchell among them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e draws on Sarah Gordon's thirty years of reading, teaching, and discussing one of our most complex and influential authors. It takes us closer than we have ever been to the creative struggles behind such literary masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e and \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Gordon is a professor emerita of English at Georgia College and State University. She was for many years the chair of her university's internationally renowned symposia on O'Connor. In addition she was the editor of the \"Flannery O'Connor Bulletin\" and the founding editor of the \"Flannery O'Connor Review.\" Her books include \"Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination\" and \"Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.06 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757853180192,"sku":"9780820325200","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/89b7e183ca2e977ae30c7be456440f2a.webp?v=1780113203","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/flannery-oconnor-the-obedient-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}