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  • Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism

    Essays on Violence and Grace

    de Avis Hewitt ...
    In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a “time of terror. ... Leer más

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  • How Reading Changed My Life

    de Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... Leer más

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    de Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Leer más

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  • The Terrible Speed of Mercy

    A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

    de Jonathan Rogers ...
    "Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics."—Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor's work has been described as "profane, blasphemous, and outrageous." Her stories are peopled by a sordid caravan of murderers and thieves, ... Leer más

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  • The Book That Changed My Life

    Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

    Edición de Diane Osen ...
    Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading ... Leer más

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  • Beauty Will Save the World

    Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age

    de Gregory Wolfe ...
    Culture, Not PoliticsWe live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, ... Leer más

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  • Good Boys and Dead Girls

    And Other Essays

    de Mary Gordon ...
    A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary GordonMuch acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, Good Boys and Dead Girls provides a richly autobiographical context for the themes that mark her fiction, such as Irish-American life, Catholicism, embattled ... Leer más

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  • Different Dispatches

    Journalism in American Modernist Prose

    de David T. Humphries ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural ... Leer más

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  • A History of American Literature

    de Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Leer más

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  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    de Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Leer más

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  • A Subversive Gospel

    Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    de Michael Mears Bruner ...
    Series series Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
    Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) Book of the Year - Literary CriticismThe good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act.These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor, whose writing was deeply informed by both her Southern context and her Christian faith. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts ... Leer más

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  • The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

    The Gospel Meets the Cold War

    de Timothy H. Sherwood ...
    The greatness of America's most influential preachers of the twentieth century came from their significant contributions to both religious and secular society. Some names, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Billy Graham, are universally recognized and typically thought of first by people today. Assorted reviews have also listed other notable names from various Christian denominations, but little ... Leer más

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