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“I'm Alien to a Great Deal”: Flannery O'Connor and the Modernist Ethic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Tony Magistrale
Tony Magistrale
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Tony Magistrale is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Vermont, 315 Old Mill, Burlington, Vermont 05405-0114, U.S.A.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , April 1990 , pp. 93 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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References

1 Letter of 28 August 1955, in Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, ed. Fitzgerald, Sally (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), 97.Google Scholar

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6 One cannot help but speculate that O'Connor would have found much to admire about Pope John Paul, the current leader of the Roman Catholic church. His relentless emphasis on a return to traditional dogma and orientation would surely have aroused corresponding sensibilities in O'Connor herself.

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