Description: In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician. This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of hyperbole, distortion, allusion, analogy, the dramatization of extreme religious experience, the manipulation of judgment through narrative voice, and direct address to the reader. Schloss aims to return Flannery O'Connor to her readers on fathomable terms, to offer a rhetorical, rather than theological, perspective from which to understand the country preachers, square-jawed farm wives, wise rubes, foolish intellectuals, huckster Bible salesmen, killers, and other "good country people" who populate O'Connor's fiction.
Price: 18.82 USD
Location: Matraville, NSW
End Time: 2025-01-05T20:07:59.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
EAN: 9780807142455
UPC: 9780807142455
ISBN: 9780807142455
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of I
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Publication Name: Flannery O'connor's Dark Comedies : the Limits of Inference
Language: English
Publisher: LSU
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: Women Authors, American / General, American / Regional
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Carol Shloss
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
