Approaches to teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor / edited by Robert Donahoo and Marshall Bruce Gentry.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2019. |
| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Teaching on the borders / Robert Donahoo
- PART ONE: MATERIALS / Robert Donahoo and Marshall Bruce Gentry. Editions
- Reference works
- Background studies
- Critical commentaries
- Audiovisual aids
- Manuscript collections
- O’Connor’s childhood home and Andalusia
- PART TWO: APPROACHES. Introduction to the essays / Marshall Bruce Gentry and Robert Donahoo
- The author as teacher: O’Connor as self-critic. On her own work / Flannery O’Connor ; O’Connor through her letters / Will Brantley
- O’Connor and religion. Of whales and warthogs: Jonah as biblical paradigm for teaching O’Connor / Christina Bieber Lake ; Hillbilly Thomist: understanding O’Connor’s Catholic literary aesthetics in “A temple of the Holy Ghost” / Mark Bosco ; Incarnation and original sin: teaching O’Connor as a Christian writer / Jessica Hooten Wilson
- Contexts: race, history, film, and science. Race and grace in O’Connor’s fiction / Doreen Fowler ; O’Connor and Whiteness studies / John N. Duvall ; Teaching O’Connor in context: modernism as historical artifact / Robert Donahoo ; Restoring connections: an interdisciplinary perspective on Wise blood / John Lance Bacon ; Teaching O’Connor with science and technology studies / Doug Davis ; Eternal “Greenleaf”: O’Connor’s environmental imagination / Christine Flanagan
- O’Connor and other authors. O’Connor in the company of Dubliners / Miriam Marty Clark and Virginia Grant ; Teaching O’Connor in conversation with William Faulkner / John D. Sykes, Jr. ; The physical and psychological violence of race relations in Ann Petry and O’Connor / Margaret Earley Whitt ; Teaching O’Connor’s “Everything that rises must converge” and Alice Walker’s “Convergence” in the twenty-first-century South / Nagueyalti Warren ; Language, class, and social power: teaching O’Connor and Junot Diaz at City Tech / Carole K. Harris ; O’Connor in popular music / Irwin Streight
- Specialized perspectives. Feminism and identity politics in a critical close reading of “Good country people” / Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick ; Teaching the body in O’Connor / Ben Saxton ; Teaching O’Connor’s narrative style through “The river” / Donald E. Hardy
- Short story. Convergence: the duped shall enter last: but they shall enter / Alice Walker
- Notes on contributors
- Survey participants
- Works cited
- Index of O’Connor’s works
- Index of names.