Sarah Gordon (1)
Autore di Flannery O'Connor: A Celebration of Genius
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Sarah gordon is a professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She has chaired her university's internationally renowned symposia on O'Connor and has been editor of "The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin" since 1983. Gordon is also editor of the book "Flannery mostra altro O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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"Flannery O'Connor's use of the land is not like that of William Faulkner, for whom the South's complicated and tragic history is inextricably tied to the envy and greed of the propertyless for property, for land, with all the bizarre comedy and violence entailed by the age-old conflict. To be sure, O'Connor saw humanity as fallen and always subject to envy and greed, among other sins; her vision, however, belongs to Christian prophecy, wherein the rural landscape, with its inevitable long line of trees, serves as the setting, at times almost ritualistic, for the individual's confrontation with evil and with the possibility of God's redemptive grace. O'Connor, unlike Faulkner, is not concerned with the actual history of the South or with any kind of collective white guilt; her fiction is centered on the individual search for salvation."
I guess I was expecting more of that kind of analysis and thought in a book thats title starts with "A Literary Guide..." Still, there is much to be learned from this book, and it provides a nice background for those who, like me, are unfamiliar with Flannery O'Connor. It is a good place to start, and certainly if you want to see the buildings and places that had such an impact on her life, then this is an excellent choice as the photographs are stunning. Certainly worth your time if the subject interests you.… (altro)