Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction : Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy /

"In this study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic vio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ciuba, Gary M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Edición:Louisiana pbk. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980.
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990.
O'Connor, Flannery.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
Percy, Walker, > 1916-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Criticism and interpretation.
O'Connor, Flannery > Criticism and interpretation.
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.
Violence in literature.
Desire in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Desir dans la litterature.
Violence dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The hanged man at old Sardis church : the culture of violence and the violence of culture in the south
  • 2. "Given only me for model" : Porter's "Miranda" stories and the dilemmas of mimetic desire
  • 3. "Like a boulder blocking your path" : O'Connor's Skandalon in The Violent bear it away
  • 4. McCarthy's enfant terrible : incarnating sacred violence in Child of God
  • 5. No more for Azazel : victimizing the sign and signifying the victim in Percy's The Thanatos syndrome.

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