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Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation / John D. Sykes, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, John, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revelation in literature.
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.
- O'Connor, Flannery.
- Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
- Percy, Walker.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examining the writings of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy against the background of the Southern Renaissance from which they emerged, Sykes explores how the writers shared a distinctly Christian notion of art that led them to see fiction as revelatory but adopted different theological emphases and rhetorical strategies"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- O'Connor and new criticism
- Romantic symbol and the Catholic revival
- O'Connor and the body : incarnation, redemptive suffering, and evil
- O'Connor on divine self-disclosure : Eucharist as revelation
- Helen Keller and the message in the bottle : Percy on language
- Percy's novelistic quest for faith
- Surviving apocalypse through hope and love
- Southern strangers and the sacramental community.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6623-1
- OCLC:
- 320323802
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