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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Wise Blood"”.
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WISE BLOOD THROUGH THE LENS OF READER RESPONSE THEORY
<p>Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel, <em>Wise Blood, </em>is a frequently misunderstood classic. While O’Connor is very rarely associated with reader response theory, its framework offers a way to more fully appreciate O’Connor as an author and <em>Wise Blood</em> as a novel while addressing aspects …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
… of four post-World War II American novels. Wise Blood, by Flannery O·Connor; Lie Down in Darkness, by William Styron; The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; and The Martyred, by Richard Kim. Findings. The novels approach the problem from various positions: theism, existentialism, black …
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City, suburban and pastoral spaces and the formation of identity in Cold War America (1945-1965)
… Named Desire (1948) and Flannery OʼConnorʼs Wise Blood (1952). Using imagined spaces and landscapes this section considers a different form of spatially-determined identity, identity formed in an essentially hyperreal space – and exposes the contradictions of conformity and transgression. …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
… on how those ideas manifest in her novel <em>Wise Blood</em>. In a novel where the controlling motif of spiritual blindness is so pronounced, O'Connor chooses to keep the “sub-theme” of modern materialism much more subtly (but stubbornly) in the background, but in a way that bolsters, by …