Title: Flannery O’Connor: Reading Kierkegaard in the Light of Thomas Aquinas
Abstract:Alice Walker (b. 1944) has said that Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) was "the first great modern writer from the South,"1 no faint praise given the number of Southern authors who rose to the fore of twent...Alice Walker (b. 1944) has said that Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) was "the first great modern writer from the South,"1 no faint praise given the number of Southern authors who rose to the fore of twentieth-century American letters-a group that, among others,2 included William Faulkner (1897-1962), Eudora Welty (1909-2001), Tennessee Williams (1911-83), and Carson McCullers (1917-67). Other commentators, wary of limiting the scope of O'Connor's achievement, have placed her stories in a broader context. The writer and monastic Thomas Merton (1915-68) has likened O'Connor to the ancient Greek tragedian, Sophocles, "for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man's fall and his dishonor."3 Thus he suggests that her oeuvre is universal, timeless.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-12-05
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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