Carol Shloss: 2 books
Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies
The Limits of Inference
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician.
This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's...
Lucia Joyce
To Dance in the Wake
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, 1934
Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol...