TY - BOOK AU - Driskell,Leon V. AU - Brittain,Joan T. TI - The eternal crossroads: the art of Flannery O'Connor SN - 9780813162706 AV - PS3565 .E847 1971 PY - 1971/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - O'Connor, Flannery KW - Women and literature KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - In literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; The eternal crossroads --; Specific influences : Mauriac, Hawthorne, and West --; Wise blood and what came before --; The expanded vision : from the Tower of Babel to vicarious atonement --; A second novel and related stories --; The posthumous collection; 2; b N2 - Flannery O'Connor was a writer of extraordinary power and virtuosity. Her strong supple prose blends humor, pathos, satire, and grotesquerie which leads the reader to the evil at the center of the self's labyrinth. There, she confronts that evil with originality and power, pulling the reader into consideration of the terrifying dependencies of love in the recesses of the heart. This study focuses on Flannery O'Connor's sense of the coincidence of the eternal and cosmic with worldly time and place -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938711&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -