Everything That Rises Must Converge
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Everything That Rises Must Converge is a posthumously published collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor, noted for its darkly comic explorations of race, class, and morality in the American South.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Flannery O'Connor ⓘ |
| containsAutobiographicalElements | no ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts |
conflicts between old Southern values and modernity
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racial tensions during desegregation ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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short stories ⓘ |
| hasCentralConcern |
moral blindness
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spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | no ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSubtext | Catholic theology ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTitleShortStory |
A View of the Woods
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Everything That Rises Must Converge self-link ⓘ Greenleaf ⓘ Judgment Day ⓘ Parker's Back ⓘ Book of Revelation ⓘ
surface form:
Revelation
The Comforts of Home ⓘ The Enduring Chill ⓘ The Lame Shall Enter First ⓘ Why Do the Heathen Rage? ⓘ |
| includedIn | 20th-century American literature canon ⓘ |
| isFollowedBy | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Catholic literature ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
grace and redemption
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race relations ⓘ religious faith ⓘ social change in the American South ⓘ violence and moral shock ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic tone
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exploration of class in the American South ⓘ exploration of morality in the American South ⓘ exploration of race in the American South ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| posthumouslyCompletedBy | Flannery O'Connor's literary executors ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| titleOrigin | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's phrase "everything that rises must converge" ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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ironic ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Flannery O'Connor
subject surface form:
Mary Flannery O'Connor