Jan Nordby Gretlund

Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality Jan Nordby Gretlund

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2006.; Includes bibliographical references and index.;'Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality' brings together an assembly of O'Connor scholars, four of whom numbered among the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the mid-century political, religious, and social milieu on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention. Publisher Marketing: Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality brings together essays by a number of distinguished O'Connor scholars, four of whom were the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the political, religious, and social milieu of her time on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention and are rediscovered by new generations of readers. The contributors mark the current terrain of scholarship on the wry Georgian writer and open new avenues for future explorations in O'Connor's work.

Contributor Bio:  Gretlund, Jan Nordby Jan Nordby Gretlund is the chair of the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and the author of Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place and Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South. He is also editor of Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence and The Southern State of Mind and coeditor of Realist of Distances: Flannery O'Connor Revisited; Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher; Southern Landscapes; The Late Novels of Eudora Welty; and Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality. Contributor Bio:  Westarp, Karl-Heinz Karl-Heinz Westarp recently retired from the University of Aarhun in Denmark, where he chaired the Department of English for more than ten years. Westarp is the author of Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft and Precision and Depth: In Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories. Gretlund and Westarp's previous collections are Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher, The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, and Realist of Distances: Flannery O'Connor Revisited.