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The Example of Flannery O'Connor

Karl Keller

  • Karl Keller: Author
Criticism
  • Full text online at Marriott Library, University of Utah
\"More alarming than the paucity of qualified works of fiction in the Church is the lack of fictional exploration of the theology itself. Mormon fiction is by and large jack-fiction; it does not live by the principles of the Church. . . . With few exceptions the more removed a work of Mormon fiction is from orthodoxy, the better its art . . . , and the more narrowly orthodox its point of view, the poorer its art\" (62). \"When someone becomes capable of creating imaginative worlds where Mormon theological principles are concretely true, then we will have a writer of the stature of Flannery O\'Connor.\" (71)

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Published in Dialogue, volume 9, issue 4, pages 62-71, Winter 1974
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