{"product_id":"understanding-flannery-o-connor-paperback","title":"Understanding Flannery O' Connor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Earley Whitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManners, mystery, and maniacs in O'Connor's unforgettable fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribing Flannery O'Connor's fiction as \"violent, grotesque, and horribly funny, with a twist,\" Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed its readers. In a comprehensive survey that encompasses O'Connor's short stories, novels, essays, and letters, as well as the body of criticism that has proliferated since her death in 1964, Whitt illumines the religious themes and bizarre characters that make O'Connor's prose so strikingly different from that of other American writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitt discusses the components that drive the writer's work--her southernness and her Roman Catholicism--and contends that the blend of these two enabled O'Connor to deliver orthodox Christian themes through the code of southern etiquette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Early Whitt\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor and director of the first-year English program at the University of Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 259\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 6.95 x 5.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714724073535,"sku":"9781570032257","price":45.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/86d2e0be11cd9920dfefbe317d85cee0.webp?v=1765069119","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/understanding-flannery-o-connor-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}