Jessica Hooten Wilson

Giving the Devil His Due

Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were first published, but it has become more relevant to a twenty-firstt-century culture in which the lukewarm middle ground seems the most comfortable place to dwell. Giving the Devil His Due walks through all of O'Connor's stories and looks closely at Dostoevsky's magnum opus The Brothers Karamazov to show that when the devil rules, all hell breaks loos… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4982-9138-5
EAN: 9781498291385
Produktnummer: 30235392
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 156 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'788 KB

Über den Autor

Jessica Hooten Wilson is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, where she directs the Giving Voice Writers Festival and is associate director of the Honors Scholars Program.