New Essays on Wise Blood
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Part of The American Novel
- Editor: Michael Kreyling, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
- Date Published: May 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521445740
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This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only questions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic,' but launches an inquiry into the nature and history of O'Connor's critical reputation. Perceived as a 'classic' American writer despite the double setbacks of being a woman and a twentieth-century author, O'Connor continues to speak with striking clarity and disturbing vision to successive generations. Michael Kreyling's introduction explores the nature and history of O'Connor's literary reputation using quotations from her letters, works, and from critical reviews and articles covering the history of her presence in the canon. Robert Brinkmeyer Jr, who has written on O'Connor from a more or less traditional theological view in the past, writes a re-evaluative essay from that point of view. Patricia Yaeger's feminist/psychoanalytical essay explores the construction of the narrative voice in Wise Blood. James Mellard links O'Connor and Lacan, exploring territory that O'Connor herself found dangerous and irresistible: psychology and psychoanalysis. Jon Lance Bacon places O'Connor in the milieu of her times, American popular culture of the 1950s.
Read more- Deliberately does not attempt to repeat the standard lines on either the author or the novel, but goes beyond previous critical approaches
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- Date Published: May 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521445740
- length: 140 pages
- dimensions: 214 x 138 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.272kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Michael Kreyling
2. A fondness for supermarkets: Wise Blood and consumer culture Jon Lance Bacon
3. Framed in the gaze: haze, Wise Blood and Lacanian reading James Mellard
4. 'Jesus stab me in the heart!': Wise Blood wounding and sacramental aesthetics Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr
5. The woman without any bones: anti-angel aggression in Wise Blood Patricia Smith Yeager
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