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the product of a mid-century American institution, the writing program.
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I would suggest, and this is the third kind of context I want to give you today,
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that the three I've given you--
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O'Connor's letters, her theological commitments,
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southern context, southern social context,
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the New Critical writing program, the institutionalization of modernism,
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these things are not in fact separable from one another.
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Because in my own work--
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I'm writing a book on religion and fiction since 1960;
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now, this is a little bit before this period.
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But what I have discovered-- what has really been known for
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a long time, but nobody's really made much of it--is that the New