Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. Libri

Challenges the definitions of southern fiction and regional identity while reconfiguring the myths of the West that have shaped American life. This book points toward a literary tradition and a regional and national mythology that blends place and space, settlement and movement, community and individualism, security and freedom.

Presents an innovative study of Flannery O'Connor's fiction by exploring the dialogic forces at work in her writing. Drawing on the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Brinkmeyer offers an explanation for the great depth and power of O'Connor's work, paying particular attention to the ways her art and audience bear upon her regnant Catholic vision.