Binding: Paperback
Description: This bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers writers and students of American literature When she died in 1964, Flannery O Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her lifetime. The brilliant pieces in Mystery and Manners selected and edited by O Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald are characterized by the boldness and simplicity of her style a fine - tuned wit understated perspicacity and profound faith. The book opens with " The King of the Birds " her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville Georgia. There are three essays on regional writing including " The Fiction Writer and His Country" and " Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two on teaching literature including " Total Effect and the Eighth Grade"; and four on the writer and religion including " The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as " The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and " Writing Short Stories" are gems. Their value to the contemporary reader and writer is inestimable.
Title: Mystery And Manners Occasional Prose
Author(s): O'connor Flannery
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374508043
Pages: 256 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 1/1/1969
Category: Literary Essays