num_pages: 287
description: 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 violence developed by cultural and literary critic Rene Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model.
language: English
title: Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
titlecomplete: Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr