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Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation
John D. Sykes Jr.
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Hardcover. By disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that their work cannot be seen as merely a continuation of the historical aesthetic that dominated southern literature for so long. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
With his mastery of modernist technique and his depictions of characters obsessed with the past, Nobel laureate William Faulkner raised the bar for southern fiction writers. But the work of two later authors shows that the aesthetic of memory is not enough: Confederate thunder fades into a comic echo as they turn to an explicitly religious source of meaning. According to John Sykes, the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy provides occasions for divine revelation. He traces their work from its common roots in midcentury southern and Catholic intellectual life to show how the two adopted different theological emphases ... Read more
With his mastery of modernist technique and his depictions of characters obsessed with the past, Nobel laureate William Faulkner raised the bar for southern fiction writers. But the work of two later authors shows that the aesthetic of memory is not enough: Confederate thunder fades into a comic echo as they turn to an explicitly religious source of meaning. According to John Sykes, the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy provides occasions for divine revelation. He traces their work from its common roots in midcentury southern and Catholic intellectual life to show how the two adopted different theological emphases ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217578
SKU
V9780826217578
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About John D. Sykes Jr.
John D. Sykes, Jr., is Professor of English at Wingate University and author of The Romance of Innocence and the Myth of History: Faulkner's Religious Critique of Southern Culture. He lives in Wingate, North Carolina.
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