{"product_id":"9780820325200-flannery-oconnor-reve-2e","title":"Flannery O'Connor","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Obedient Imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from thirty years of reading, teaching, and discussing one of our most complex and influential authors, Gordon explores the tension in O'Connor's writing which stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O’Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O’Connor’s writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O’Connor’s Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class southern daughter; her readings of Thurber, Poe, Eliot, and other arguably misogynistic authors; and her schooling in the New Criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Gordon leads us through a world premised on expectations at odds with O’Connor’s strong and original imagination, she ranges across all of O’Connor’s fiction and many of her letters and essays. While acknowledging O’Connor’s singular situation, Gordon also gleans insights from the lives and works of other southern writers, Eudora Welty, Caroline Gordon, and Margaret Mitchell among them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e draws on Sarah Gordon’s thirty years of reading, teaching, and discussing one of our most complex and influential authors. It takes us closer than we have ever been to the creative struggles behind such literary masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eWise Blood\u003c\/i\u003e and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54848939164022,"sku":"9780820325200","price":40.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31392486.jpg?v=1733495136","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780820325200-flannery-oconnor-reve-2e","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}