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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael O'ConnellPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9781531503451ISBN 10: 1531503454 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 01 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction | 1 1 The “Blasting Annihilating Light” of Flannery O’Connor’s Art | 17 2 Disorientation and Reorientation in J. F. Powers’s Fiction | 34 3 Walker Percy and the End of the Modern World | 53 4 Tim Gautreaux and a Postconciliar Approach to Violence | 73 5 Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott | 92 6 “Life Is Rough and Death Is Coming”: George Saunders and the Catholic Literary Tradition | 112 Epilogue: Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature | 133 Acknowledgments | 147 Notes | 151 Works Cited | 165 Index | 173ReviewsMichael O'Connell's study provides a welcome expansion from the usual set of Catholic authors analyzed by critics. His linkage of the mid-twentietch century giants with more recent writers offers an important analysis of the ways Catholic authors continue to disorient their readers and push them toward a sense of transcendence.---L. Lamar Nisly, professor of English at Bluffton University, and author of Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers: Constructions of Audience and Tone in O'Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy To borrow a metaphor from George Saunders, in this book, Michael O'Connell shines a light inside the 'black box' of Catholic fiction, illuminating the similar purposes behind the disorienting methods of these eclectic writers. Starting with the expected lead figures in Catholic fiction--Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy--O'Connell moves out into less familiar territory to show how Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, George Saunders, Phil Klay, and Kirstin Valdez Quade carry for the mantel in contemporary belles lettres. We need literary criticism of this sort where the meaning matters most, where readers can close the book and feel they have received grace.---Jessica Hooten Wilson, Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts, Pepperdine University, and author of Reading for the Love of God Author InformationMichael O’Connell is an independent scholar living in Ann Arbor, MI. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago. His scholarship focuses primarily on the fields of contemporary American literature and religion and literature. He has worked as an editor, freelance writer, and associate professor at the university level. He is the editor of Conversations with George Saunders and is a contributor to David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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