Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

by Henry T. Edmondson III

Book Overview

Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around her principal concern, that with the nihilistic claim that "God is dead" the traditional signposts of good and evil have been lost. Edmondson's book demonstrates that the combination of O'Connor's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739104217
• ISBN13: 9780739104217
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"