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Autore: | Sykes John <1952-> |
Titolo: | Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation / / John D. Sykes, Jr |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Revelation in literature |
American literature - Southern States - History and criticism | |
Christianity and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6623-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823657303321 |
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