Invisible Parade: The Fiction Of Flannery O'Connor, By Miles Orvell. 1st 1972 HC

Philadelphia: Temple, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing.

8vo - 8" to 9" tall; Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation. Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Southern States -- In literature. Description:xiv, 232 pages 22 cm Contents:Defining contexts and qualities -- The Mater of the south -- The Shape of belief -- Art as incarnation -- O'Connor and the American romance tradition -- Prophets and failed prophets -- The Comic balance -- A Note on style -- Wise blood -- The Background of wise blood -- Hazel Motes -- The Uses of perspective -- Enclosing spaces -- Blindness and vision -- The Subplot of Enoch Emery -- The World of wise blood -- The Violent bear it away -- Narrative structure -- Old Tarwater, Tarwater, and Rayber -- Birth by drowning -- The Act and the word -- Secular time and sacred time -- The problem of narrative control -- The Short stories -- A Good man is hard to find -- Good country people -- The Displaced person -- The Artificial nigger -- The Comforts of home -- Parker's back -- Judgement day -- Belief and fiction -- From The Geranium to judgement day -- Appendixes -- Chronological list of fiction -- Book reviews by Flannery O'Connor.