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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Flannery O'Connor; Flannery O'Connor; Flannery O'Connor; Flannery O'Connor |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Moran |
ISBN: | 9780820352930 9780820349541 0820349542 9780820349558 0820349550 0820352934 |
OCLC Number: | 933863458 |
Description: | viii, 253 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The two receptions of Wise blood -- The "discovery" of O'Connor's Catholicism -- O'Connor's posthumous reputation -- Robert Giroux, Sally Fitzgerald, and The habit of being -- Adaptation and reputation -- O'Connor and the common (online) reader -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Daniel Moran. |
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Conveys the depth of Flannery's legacy as well as an even deeper understanding of all the mechanisms responsible for casting her as an enduring member of the literary canon.--Joseph Schwartzburt, The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah, Georgia What wonderful work: the whole is readable, lively, and always interesting. Every university worth its name will have this book in its library, so necessary is it for those working on O'Connor. Creating Flannery O'Connor is a real achievement.--Barry Qualls, professor emeritus of English, Rutgers University Daniel Moran's Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers provides a compelling investigation of how O'Connor's initial reputation of a Southern female writer over the years evolved into her status of great American writer...Through the de-construction of O'Connor's literary portrait that has been created over decades through a number of venues, Dr. Moran re-creates a new version: elusive, fluid, and changing.--Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed "New Books Network " Read more...


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