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Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky

By Jessica Hooten Wilson

Book information

Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Year
2017
ISBN
9781498291385, 9781498291378, 9781498291392
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1830513 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-19 10:32:20
Literary Criticism; Religion & Spirituality; Nonfi

Description

Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were first published, but it has become more relevant to a twenty-firstt-century culture in which the lukewarm middle ground seems the most comfortable place to dwell. Giving the Devil His Due walks through all of O'Connor's stories and looks closely at Dostoevsky's magnum opus The Brothers Karamazov to show that when the devil rules, all hell breaks loose. Instead of this kingdom of violence, O'Connor and Dostoevsky propose a kingdom of love, one that is only possible when the Lord again is king.

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