Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin: A Journey Together Towards Hope and Understanding about Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433106668)

Flannery O'Connor, the renowned short-story writer, lived and fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she sought insightful and helpful sources to alleviate her struggle with the disease. Among these sources were the ideas and thoughts of a Jesuit-paleontologist-mystic by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an individual who opened doors of witness to the secular world and attracted suspicious questioning from his Catholic superiors. Like a moth drawn to a flame, Flannery O'Connor, a devoted Thomist, increasingly admired the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin to the point that she incorporated his ideas into her last six short stories in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book adds significantly to the neglected study of Teilhard de Chardin's influence in the later literary development of Flannery O'Connor. This book would be a valuable asset to students and scholars focusing on American literature, Southern literature, twentieth-century Southern female writers, and Flannery O'Connor.

Author: Steven R. Watkins
ISBN-10: 1433106663
ISBN-13: 9781433106668
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2009
Pages: 161
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/02/2009 pg. 17
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 287