Return to good and evil : Flannery O'Connor's response to nihilism
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Lanham, Md.
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Lexington Books
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2002
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 203 p.
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 181-197( and index.
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Henry T. Edmondson, III
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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CONTENTS NOTE
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Faith, philosophy, and fiction -- O'Connor contra nihilism -- Modern man as malgrعe lui in Wise blood -- Wise blood and the difficult return to God -- "Good country people" and the seduction of nihilism -- The nature of evil in "The lame shall enter first" -- Social change in "The enduring chill" -- Modernity vs. mystery in "A view of the woods" -- Redemption and the ennoblement of suffering in "The artificial nigger" -- Grace, the Devil, and the prophet.