Henry T. Edmondson

Return to Good and Evil

Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

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Produktbeschreibung

Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around her principal concern, that with the nihilistic claim that "God is dead" the traditional signposts of good and evil have been lost. Edmondson's book demonstrates that the combination of O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius provide the best response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world-a return to "good and evil" through humility and grace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780739104217
• ISBN-10: 0739104217
• Artikelnr.: 21397152

Autorenporträt

Henry T. Edmondson III is professor in the Department of Government at Georgia College & State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Faith, Philosophy, and Fiction Chapter 2 O'Connor contra Nihilism
Chapter 3 Modern Man as Malgre Lui in Wise Blood Chapter 4 Wise Blood and
the Difficult Return to God Chapter 5 "Good Country People" and the
Seduction of Nihilism Chapter 6 The Nature of Evil in "The Lame Shall Enter
First" Chapter 7 Social Change in "The Enduring Chill" Chapter 8 Modernity
versus Mystery in "A View of the Woods" Chapter 9 Redemption and the
Ennoblement of Suffering in "The Artificial Nigger" Chapter 10 Grace, the
Devil, and the Prophet