Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"

Flannery O’Connor is known for her widely read and loved short stories. By employing sociolinguistic, quantitative, qualitative, and corpus linguistic methods along with R Studio to gather data about literary dialect utilized in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”, I argue that not only was O’Connor a gifted author in her portrayal of African American English and Southern English, but that her writing was also accurate in comparison to language use in the South. The findings suggest that O’Connor’s characters were true to life in the Southern US at the time of her writing and further lend credence to arguments of literary critics who applaud her strength in writing.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Modern Languages

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Modern Languages

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Kuiper, Katherine Ireland

Contributors dc:contributor

• Allison Burkette
• Donald Dyer
• Christopher Sapp

• Dialectal Representations
• Literary Dialect
• Sociolinguistics
• Southern Literature
• Linguistics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/698

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1697