Desire, violence & divinity in modern southern fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 44-6699-44-6699
Keyword(s):  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Walker Percy ◽  
Southern Fiction ◽  
Katherine Anne Porter

scholarly journals The Action of Grace in Territory Held by the Devil: Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Singleton ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Old Men ◽  
The Devil

This paper compares the lives and work of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy. The two authors share similarities in their backgrounds, careers, and work. The paper begins with an examination of biographical information of both authors to contextualize their work and note commonalities in their lives and careers. The central idea is that Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy both create grotesque characters to reveal the depraved condition of humanity in order to highlight the need for redemption and the possibility of divine grace. To prove this, examples are discussed from multiple pieces of work by O’Connor and McCarthy including The Misfit, from O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” and Anton Chigurh, from McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Following this is a review of the visual presentation of No Country for Old Men through the Coen brothers’ film adaptation of the novel.

Flannery O'Connor: Another Legend in Southern Fiction

1962 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin J. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Southern Fiction

A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction of William Gay1

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Giraldi
Keyword(s):  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Walker Percy ◽  
Southern Writers ◽  
Carson Mccullers

This chapter discusses the fiction of William Gay, one of American literature's most authentic chroniclers of life in the Rough South. Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23, 2012, at the age of seventy. His books were crafted from darkness: The Long Home (1999), Provinces of Night (2000), I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002), and Twilight (2006). Along with Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews, Gay wrote about the lives of the underclass with both understanding and sincerity. Many important southern writers who came before—Peter Taylor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Walker Percy—seem timid in comparison to Gay and his nightmarish depictions. Known for his unflinching portrayals of human cruelty in his fiction, Gay was in life a mild and dignified man.

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