Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies
Author | : Carol Shloss |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2012-01-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807142479 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807142476 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Download or read book Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies written by Carol Shloss and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician. This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of hyperbole, distortion, allusion, analogy, the dramatization of extreme religious experience, the manipulation of judgment through narrative voice, and direct address to the reader. Schloss aims to return Flannery O'Connor to her readers on fathomable terms, to offer a rhetorical, rather than theological, perspective from which to understand the country preachers, square-jawed farm wives, wise rubes, foolish intellectuals, huckster Bible salesmen, killers, and other "good country people" who populate O'Connor's fiction.