Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation
By: John D. Sykes, Jr.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826217578
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation; Percy, Walker, -- 1916-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation; Revelation in literature; American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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 emphases and rhetorical strategies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: O'Connor and new criticism; title: Romantic symbol and the Catholic revival; title: O'Connor and the body : incarnation, redemptive suffering, and evil; title: O'Connor on divine self-disclosure : Eucharist as revelation; title: Helen Keller and the message in the bottle : Percy on language; title: Percy's novelistic quest for faith; title: Surviving apocalypse through hope and love; title: Southern strangers and the sacramental community.