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The Theology of Flannery O'Connor: Biblical Recapitulations in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
This thesis examines the way Flannery O'Connor's stories draw upon and transfigure various biblical texts. With sometimes shocking freedom, she twists open the original stories or references, reworking and redistributing their basic elements. Often reversing the polarity of the original stories, …
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Symbolism in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Convergences: Teilhard De Chardin and Flannery O'Connor
… spent his life in the study of the whole man, so Flannery O'Connor, Catholic-Southern-writer, insisted that the work of the fiction writer who is also a Catholic is the whole man. As a fiction writer he must "render the highest possible justice to the created universe. This is the way the fiction …
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The Feminine Archetype in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor
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The Aesthetics of Grace in Flannery O'connor and Graham Greene
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The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal …
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Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism and Gender Difference in Flannery O'Connor and Some Other Southern Contemporaries
<p>Flannery O' Connor has long been an established southern writer of the mid-twentieth century. This paper discusses briefly the tenets of both Modernism and Post-Modernism as literary movements of the twentieth-century, then looks specifically at how O'Connor's fiction makes her a key hallmark …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… Country People”, and “The Displaced Person” Flannery O’Connor highlights the choices people make within that violence can directly affect the results of that violence. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, through the character of Billy Pilgrim, extends choices around violence even further, …
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A jungle of shadows : interpenetrations of the anagogical and the grotesque in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) has become established in critical thought both as a "Christian" writer and a writer of the "grotesque". Indeed, to be true to the nature of her art, neither designation can be easily discarded. It is the premise of this study that O'Connor's mature, post-l 952 work, …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… and the sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured to conform to the Southern ideal. …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… between Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information into his or her characters, the real …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
This dissertation argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the …
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Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons
… This appeals to me precisely because, as Flannery O'Connor has noted, if a writer of faith "hopes to reveal mysteries, he will have to do it by describing truthfully what he sees from where he is."
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If Only I Knew: The Stranger in the Twentieth-Century Short Story.
… Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and David James Duncan. The second provides five original works of fiction that represent my understanding of the genre. Observations in the first section fall into three basic categories: "The Mysterious Stranger: …
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The Fiction and the Aesthetic Principles of Flannery O’Connor: A Study in Theory and Practice
Flannery O'Connor, a recent Southern writer, gives evidence in her fiction and in her statements on aesthetics that she has a message vital to modern man. This message, a faith-oriented interpretation of the meaning of man, is conveyed through three basic concepts: Reality, Redemption, and Shook. …
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"The Old Fierce Pull of Blood": Family and the Southern Gothic
… major authors of the genre: William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Through exploring texts such as "Barn Burning", "A Rose for Emily", "That Evening Sun", "A Justice", "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", "Good Country People", and "The Lame Shall Enter First", the correlation between the gothic and …
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… southern gothic schoolmates of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, placing his songs in the context of southern writers. His music emphasizes the language and rituals of the people around him in Georgia, especially Athens, who helped give him such a strong sense of …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… relative infiniteness of four literary authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional …
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