Sacred groves and ravaged gardens
the fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor
by Louise Hutchings Westling
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In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men-a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the actual conditions of women's lives, creating assertive protagonists who resist or revise conventional roles, and exploring rich matriarchal traditions and connections to symbolic landscapes Welty, McCullers, and O'Connor created a body of fiction that enriches and complements the patriarchal version of southern life presented in the works of William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and William Styron.-publisher description.
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History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, American fiction, Landscape in literature, Women authors, Women and literature, In literature, History, Literature, Landscapes in literature, Southern States in literature, Roman, Sudstaaten, Women in literature, Südstaaten, Criticism and interpretationwelty, eudora , 1909-2001, Criticism and interpretationmccullers, carson , 1917-1967, Criticism and interpretationo'connor, flannery, American fiction--women authors--history and criticism, American fiction--history and criticism, American fiction--southern states--history and criticism, American fiction--20th century--history and criticism, Women and literature--history, Women and literature--southern states--history--20th century, Ps374.w6 w4 1985Places
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Sacred groves and ravaged gardens: the fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor
1985, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820307467 9780820307466
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Bibliography: p. [197]-208.
Includes index.
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