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Preachers and misfits, prophets and thieves : the minister in southern fiction
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- Creator
- G. Lee Ramsey, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xx, 164 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780664232245, 0664232248
- OCLC
- ocn220420060
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
- Whose voice is that : the vocation of the minister and southern fiction -- Giving them transcendence : Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth -- Too good a community to be tore apart by arguin' : Terry Kay, The year the lights came on -- Lower than a snake's belly : Michael Morris, A place called wiregrass -- Baptizing your pain in the river of life : Flannery O'Conner, "The river" -- Behold, the zombie of the empty : Barry Hannah, Yonder stands your orphan -- I'm strongly in favor of prayer, but-- : William Hoffman, "The question of rain" -- We use only first names in our place of worship : Anne Tyler, Saint maybe -- I could not have told anyone else : Walker Percy, Lancelot -- The grace of daily obligations : Gail Godwin, Evensong -- God don't eat okra : Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's gourd vine -- Lying, cheating, and stealing to arrive at the ultimate good : Martin Clark, Plain heathen mischief -- God wants it done now : Will Campbell, The convention -- He's on his way up : Cassandra King, The Sunday wife -- Changed just about everything round here : Ernest Gaines, In my father's house -- Relieving the suffering of old folks at homes : Clyde Edgerton, Lunch at the Piccadilly -- If you've been redeemed, I wouldn't want to be : Flannery O'Connor, Wise blood -- Taking up serpents : Lee Smith, Saving grace -- Nothing out of the ordinary : Richard Bausch, "Design."
Subjects
- American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
- Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
- Christianity and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century.
- Clergy in literature.
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Belief and doubt in literature.
- Faith in literature.
- Southern States -- In literature.
- Southern States -- Religion.