Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin

Steven R. Watkins

ISBN 10: 1433106663 / ISBN 13: 9781433106668

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2009, 2009

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Neuware -Flannery O¿Connor, the renowned short-story writer, lived and fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she sought insightful and helpful sources to alleviate her struggle with the disease. Among these sources were the ideas and thoughts of a Jesuit-paleontologist-mystic by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an individual who opened doors of witness to the secular world and attracted suspicious questioning from his Catholic superiors. Like a moth drawn to a flame, Flannery O¿Connor, a devoted Thomist, increasingly admired the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin to the point that she incorporated his ideas into her last six short stories in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book adds significantly to the neglected study of Teilhard de Chardin¿s influence in the later literary development of Flannery O¿Connor. This book would be a valuable asset to students and scholars focusing on American literature, Southern literature, twentieth-century Southern female writers, and Flannery O¿Connor.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 172 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2009
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1433106663
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781433106668
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 155 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 399 grammes

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Flannery O'Connor, the renowned short-story writer, lived and fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she sought insightful and helpful sources to alleviate her struggle with the disease. Among these sources were the ideas and thoughts of a Jesuit-paleontologist-mystic by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an individual who opened doors of witness to the secular world and attracted suspicious questioning from his Catholic superiors. Like a moth drawn to a flame, Flannery O'Connor, a devoted Thomist, increasingly admired the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin to the point that she incorporated his ideas into her last six short stories in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book adds significantly to the neglected study of Teilhard de Chardin's influence in the later literary development of Flannery O'Connor. This book would be a valuable asset to students and scholars focusing on American literature, Southern literature, twentieth-century Southern female writers, and Flannery O'Connor.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author: Steven R. Watkins earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a Senior Humanities professor at the University of Phoenix and has been teaching there since 2005. He has published and presented articles on Flannery O'Connor, American literature, religion, philosophy, and theology.