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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Flannery O'Connor."”.
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Reading as an Imitatio Christi : Flannery O'Connor and the hermeneutics of cruci-form beauty.
… but mutually dependent, claims: 1) that O'Connor's fiction can be, even must be, considered "beautiful," and 2) that O'Connor writes the way she does to make her audience better readers. Given the dark, shocking, grotesque, even carnivalesque character that pervades all her fiction, this …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… authority in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor, using René Girard's theory of mimesis. O'Connor and Dostoevsky recognize the rejection of divine authority as the central religious problem of the modern world. Though their continents and centuries differ, the two writers lived …
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A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… and science. Second, I study the works of Flannery O'Connor as she incorporates aspects of the evolutionary theology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and rejects other aspects. Thirdly, I show how Walker Percy envisions the overlap between depression and the spiritual vice of acedia and seeks …