Author: HOFFMAN, Arnold R.
Title: The Sense of Place: Peter de Vries, J.F. Powers, and Flannery O'Connor
Description: N.p. Michigan State University, 1970. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering. (3pp), iv, 253pp -- all rectos only. Near fine. Sole edition of this Ph.D. dissertation, likely produced in a miniscule quantity of fewer than a handful of copies. Hoffman seeks to show "that the fiction of Peter De Vries, J.F. Powers and Flannery O'Connor is informed by both Christian theology and a comic vision.." From the library of academic and critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), who chaired the doctoral committee that oversaw this dissertation and is the first thanked in the book's acknowledgments "for his insight, helpful, and kind direction of this thesis...

Keywords: Religion Literary Criticism


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