Marshall Bruce Gentry

(Author)

Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the GrotesquePaperback, 1 April 1986

Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque
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Print Length
188 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Date Published
1 Apr 1986
ISBN-10
1578068657
ISBN-13
9781578068654

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This new assessment of a major southern writer's work offers a revisionist view of her characters, who in the past twenty-five years of critical attention too often and too easily have been labeled grotesque.

O'Connor's stories and novels are usually considered mere dramatizations of her stated orthodox religious commitments. According to the predominant view, the typical O'Connor work consists of a set of corrupt characters and an authoritative narrator who analyzes their theological errors. When redemption occurs, according to this view, it results from forces outside the character and against that character's will.

Although such a reading adequately describes a few works, it misunderstands O'Connor's general handling of narration and of characterization. Marshall Bruce Gentry proposes new positions on O'Connor's narration and on the role of the grotesque in her characterization. By investigating the nature of religious experience in her works, he concludes that O'Connor's primar

Product Details

Author:
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 April 1986
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.09 cm
ISBN-10:
1578068657
ISBN-13:
9781578068654
Language:
English
Pages:
188
Weight:
281.23 gm

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