Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist
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Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist  -     By: Richard Giannone

Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist

University Of South Carolina Press / 2010 / Paperback

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Title: Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist
By: Richard Giannone
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 312
Vendor: University Of South Carolina Press
Publication Date: 2010
Dimensions: 9.02 X 5.98 X 0.70 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound
ISBN: 1570039100
ISBN-13: 9781570039102
Stock No: WW039101

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Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive time she developed a fascination with fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment and whose isolation, suffering, and faith mirrored her own. In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics and the ways in which she infused her fiction with their teachings. Surveying the influences of the desert fathers on O'Connor's protagonists, Giannone shows how her characters are moved toward a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of confronting both internal and worldly evils while being drawn closer to God. Artfully bridging literary analysis, O'Connor's biography, and monastic writings, Giannone's study explores O'Connor's advocacy of self-denial and self-scrutiny as vital spiritual weapons that might be brought to bear against the antagonistic forces she found rampant in modern American life.

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