{"product_id":"the-eternal-crossroads-the-art-of-flannery-oconnor-paperback","title":"The Eternal Crossroads: The Art of Flannery O'Connor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeon V. Driskell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoan T. Brittain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlannery O'Connor was a writer of extraordinary power and virtuosity. Her strong supple prose blends humor, pathos, satire, and grotesquerie which leads the reader to the evil at the center of the self's labyrinth. There, she confronts that evil with originality and power, pulling the reader into consideration of the terrifying dependencies of love in the recesses of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study focuses on Flannery O'Connor's sense of the coincidence of the eternal and cosmic with worldly time and place--\"the eternal crossroads\"-- and how that sense controls and infuses her fiction. From an examination of various influences upon Miss O'Connor's work--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mauriac, Nathaniel West, and Hawthorne--the authors consider her novels and stories, as well as several stories never collected. Their textual analysis shows that her structures, images, motifs, and symbols became vehicles for anagogical meaning as she progressed from early promise to artistic fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering Miss O'Connor's own comments on her writing, the authors illuminate some frequently misunderstood features of her work, such as her \"grotesques\" and her stress on death and violence. In so doing they make an important contribution to our understanding of how Flannery O'Connor arrived at \"the eternal crossroads.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon V. Driskell teaches English at the University of Louisville, and Joan T. Brittain teaches English at Bellarmine- Ursuline College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863241785632,"sku":"9780813152028","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/IorsNpxm399780813152028.webp?v=1781638486","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-eternal-crossroads-the-art-of-flannery-oconnor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}