Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation [electronic resource] / John D. Sykes, Jr.

By: Sykes, John, 1952-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007Description: xiii, 192 pSubject(s): O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation | Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation | Revelation in literature | American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism | Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3565.C57 | Z88 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.

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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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