Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation /

"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...

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Main Author: Sykes, John, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.