Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism
ISBN-10
0739111051
ISBN-13
9780739111055
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2005-03-28
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Henry T. Edmondson

Description

Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around her principal concern, that with the nihilistic claim that 'God is dead' the traditional signposts of good and evil have been lost. Edmondson's book demonstrates that the combination of O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius provide the best response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world—a return to 'good and evil' through humility and grace.

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