Desire, violence & divinity in modern southern fiction : Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy /
Ciuba, Gary M.
Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
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
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
O'Connor, Flannery
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Percy, Walker, 1916-1990
American literature
American literature
Violence in literature.
Desire in literature.