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BL
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1034026
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b788396
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| Main Entry
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O'Gorman, Farrell.
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| Title & Author
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Peculiar crossroads : : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic vision in postwar southern fiction /\ Farrell O'Gorman.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2004.
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| Series Statement
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Southern literary studies
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1 online resource (ix, 259 pages).
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| ISBN
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0807133353
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: 0807134279
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: 9780807133354
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0807129887
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9780807133354
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| Notes
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina, 2000.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
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| Contents
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"We have had our fall" : malaise and mystery in the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy -- South to Rome : four southern writers and the Catholic revival -- Toward a Catholic theory of fiction : a Christian realism of the "here-and-now" -- Postwar America and the end of the modern South : catastrophes, castaways, new worlds -- Languages of mystery : legacies of O'Connor and Percy in contemporary southern letters.
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| Abstract
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In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor.
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O'Connor, Flannery-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Percy, Walker,1916-1990-- Criticism and interpretation.
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O'Connor, Flannery.
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Percy, Walker,1916-1990.
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American fiction-- Catholic authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- Southern States-- History and criticism.
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Catholics-- Southern States-- Intellectual life.
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Christian fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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Christianity and literature-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.
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American fiction-- Catholic authors.
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American fiction.
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Catholics-- Intellectual life.
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Christian fiction, American.
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Christianity and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Literature.
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Religion.
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Southern States, In literature.
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Southern States, Religion.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3565.C57Z813 2004eb
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