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The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice
Donald E Hardy
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Description for The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice
Hardcover. A reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. This book demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
This is a reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. This work extends the innovative thesis that it is possible to grasp the central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a close quantitative examination of the interactions of grammatical voice and physical bodies in her texts. Bridging literary theory and linguistics, Hardy demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice - roughly indicating that the subject is acting upon ... Read more
This is a reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. This work extends the innovative thesis that it is possible to grasp the central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a close quantitative examination of the interactions of grammatical voice and physical bodies in her texts. Bridging literary theory and linguistics, Hardy demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice - roughly indicating that the subject is acting upon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570036989
SKU
V9781570036989
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About Donald E Hardy
Donald E. Hardy is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction.
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