%0 Book %T When fiction and philosophy meet: a conversation with Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil %A Doering, E. Jane %A Johansen, Ruthann Knechel %D 2019 %I Mercer University Press %C Macon, Georgia %@ 9780881466966 %G English %F 1677135956 %O E. Jane Doering & Ruthann Knechel Johansen %O Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-242) and index %X Preface : "The red virgin" and "The red clay virgin" -- Two twentieth-century women and the world -- The poetics of philosophy and fiction -- Attention and apprenticeship : Simone Weil's "Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God," "The love of our neighbor," and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "The artificial nigger" and "The displaced person" -- Beauty and charity : Simone Weil's "Letter to a priest," Notebooks, and "Love of the order of the world" : Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people," "The lame shall enter first," and "Revelation" -- Suffering and affliction : Simone Weil's "The love of God and affliction" : Flannery O'Connor's "The enduring chill" and The violent bear it away -- Grace and decreation : Simone Weil's "Forms of the implicit love of God" and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" and "A view of the woods" -- Conclusion : the enduring world. %L 194 %K Criticism and interpretation %K Influence %K Fiction %K Religious aspects %K Christianity %K Literature %K Philosophy %K Philosophy in literature %K Christian philosophy %K O'Connor, Flannery %K Weil, Simone %K Fiction ; Religious aspects ; Christianity %K Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) %K Literature ; Philosophy %K Criticism, interpretation, etc %9 Text