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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press
ISBN-10081735588X
ISBN-139780817355883
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038428758
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNarrative Secret of Flannery O'connor : the Trickster As Interpreter
SubjectWomen Authors, General, Rhetoric, American / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorRuthann Knechel Johansen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsO'Connor's endeavor to write engaging narratives,at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world "The 'narrative secret' of Johansen's title refers to the strategies that she sees O'Connor using in her effort to communicate a spiritual message to a doubting audience. O'Connor knew from the beginning of her career that writing about the thing that mattered most to her--a person's relationship in faith with Jesus--and being taken seriously as a writer meant [choosing] a dramatic and difficult way to get her vision across: to write stories that work first and foremost as engaging narratives and at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world., "I recommend the book to readers interested in the trickster, and those who know and love O'Connor's fiction enough to relish new insights. . . . Johansen has earned her place in the ranks of those who continue to delight in O'Connor's fiction, to delight in attempts to explain its power over us, and to take pleasure in the certainty that her fiction will continue to elude our explanations." --Text and Performance Quarterly
SynopsisO'Connor's endeavor to write engaging narratives, at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world "The 'narrative secret' of Johansen's title refers to the strategies that she sees O'Connor using in her effort to communicate a spiritual message to a doubting audience. O'Connor knew from the beginning of her career that writing about the thing that mattered most to her--a person's relationship in faith with Jesus--and being taken seriously as a writer meant [choosing] a dramatic and difficult way to get her vision across: to write stories that work first and foremost as engaging narratives and at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world., O'Connor's endeavor to write engaging narratives,at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world, O'Connor's endeavor to write engaging narratives,at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world "The 'narrative secret' of Johansen's title refers to the strategies that she sees O'Connor using in her effort to communicate a spiritual message to a doubting audience. O'Connor knew from the beginning of her career that writing about the thing that mattered most to her--a person's relationship in faith with Jesus--and being taken seriously as a writer meant [choosing] a dramatic and difficult way to get her vision across: to write stories that work first and foremost as engaging narratives and at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world.