Overview
The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled ""Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor"", which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O'Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention. The volume opens with ""New Methodologies"", which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O'Connor's fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, ""New Contexts"", stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called ""Strange Bedfellows"", puts O'Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, ""O'Connor's Legacy"", reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O'Connor's interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O'Connor.
Full Product Details
Author: Alison Arant ,
Jordan Cofer ,
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9781496831804
ISBN 10: 1496831802
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 30 November 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Enlightening and insightful new approaches to the study of this influential southern writer--Melanie Dragger The Literary House Review
Author Information
Alison Arant is associate professor and department chair in English at Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City. Her work has appeared in Flannery O'Connor Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Literary Journal. Jordan Cofer is associate provost and professor of English at Georgia College. He is author of The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor and coauthor of Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present. Marshall Bruce Gentry is author of Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque and coeditor (with William L. Stull) of Conversations with Raymond Carver, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
