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- catalog abstract """Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of her life on the family farm in rural Georgia, which she claimed was accessible "only by bus or buzzard." During this productive, solitary time she became increasingly fascinated by fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment." "In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics, a bond that stemmed from her faith as well as her own isolation and physical suffering from lupus, and the ways in which their strange, still voices illuminate her fiction. Distinguishing among various desert calls summoning O'Connor's protagonists to solitude and renunciation, Giannone shows how these characters live out a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of grappling with their demons and drawing closer to God."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11577329.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description """Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of her life on the family farm in rural Georgia, which she claimed was accessible "only by bus or buzzard." During this productive, solitary time she became increasingly fascinated by fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment." "In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics, a bond that stemmed from her faith as well as her own isolation and physical suffering from lupus, and the ways in which their strange, still voices illuminate her fiction. Distinguishing among various desert calls summoning O'Connor's protagonists to solitude and renunciation, Giannone shows how these characters live out a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of grappling with their demons and drawing closer to God."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-279) and index.".
- catalog description "The hermit novelist -- Hazel Motes and the desert tradition -- Sporting with demons -- Entering a strange country -- The prophet and the word in the desert -- Acedia and Penthos -- Vision and vice -- The power of exile.".
- catalog extent "x, 287 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252025288 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Asceticism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Catholics United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Christian fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Desert Fathers.".
- catalog subject "Deserts in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hermits in literature.".
- catalog subject "Monastic and religious life in literature.".
- catalog subject "O'Connor, Flannery Religion.".
- catalog subject "PS3565.C57 Z6794 2000".
- catalog subject "Solitude in literature.".
- catalog subject "Spiritual life in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The hermit novelist -- Hazel Motes and the desert tradition -- Sporting with demons -- Entering a strange country -- The prophet and the word in the desert -- Acedia and Penthos -- Vision and vice -- The power of exile.".
- catalog title "Flannery O'Connor, hermit novelist / Richard Giannone.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".