{"product_id":"reconsidering-flannery-oconnor-hardback-9781496831798","title":"Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor (Hardback) 9781496831798","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReconsidering Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlison Arant (Edited by), Jordan Cofer (Edited by), Marshall Bruce Gentry (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496831798\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e275 pages, 2 black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled \"Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor\", which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, \u003ci\u003eReconsidering Flannery O'Connor \u003c\/i\u003edisrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O'Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The volume opens with \"New Methodologies\", which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O'Connor's fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, \"New Contexts\", stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called \"Strange Bedfellows\", puts O'Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, \"O'Connor's Legacy\", reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O'Connor's interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O'Connor.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735678480664,"sku":"9781496831798","price":87.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reconsidering-flannery-oconnor-hardback-9781496831798","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}