Wise Blood.

Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations for O'Connor's Works John J. Han: Introduction Section I: Religious and Philosophical Thought Debra L. Cumberland: Flannery O'Connor and the Question of the Christian Novel Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: This Protestant World: Flannery O'Connor's Portrayal of the Modern Protestant South in Wise Blood Susan Amper: "I believe, I believe": The Miracle of Christ in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood Andrew Peter Atkinson: Virgil If Punched in the Gut: A Defense of Jansenist Interpretations of Wise Blood Section II: Comedy, Humor, and Animality in Wise Blood Andrew B. Leiter: Comedy and the Anti-existential in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood Aaron Hillyer: Becoming Human, Becoming Animal: The Anthropological Machine at Work in Wise Blood Paul Benedict Grant: O'Connor's Comic Vision: Faith and Humor in Wise Blood Section III: Influences on Wise Blood Jordan Cofer: Flannery & Franz: Tracing the Kafkaesque Influences on O'Connor's Wise Blood John J. Han: A Roman Catholic Response to Nihilism and Protestantism: Wise Blood as an Anti-Kafkaesque Novel Henry T. Edmondson III: Flannery O'Connor and Gerard Manley Hopkins on the Virtues of Blindness and Silence Section IV: Structural Issues W. A. Sessions: The Ambiguity of Vocation: Or, What Flannery Meant by "Malgré Lui" Lewis MacLeod: "Was You Going Anywheres?": Wandering Between the Modern and Postmodern in Wise Blood Lylas Dayton Rommel: The Dostoevskian Structure of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood Section V: Gender, Culture, and Genre Marshall Bruce Gentry: Wise Women, Wise Blood Janine Tobeck: No Redeeming Value: The Violence of/toward Realism in Wise Blood Teresa Clark Caruso: Whores and Heathens: Misogynistic Representations in Wise Blood Stacey Peebles: He's Huntin' Something: Hazel Motes as Ex-Soldier Sonya Freeman Loftis: Death, Horror, and Darkness: O'Connor's Gothic Novel on Screen Mark Schiebe: Car Trouble: Hazel Motes and the Fifties Counterculture Abstracts of Arguments About the Authors Index