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Flannery o'Connor's Dark Comedies : The Limits of Inference by Carol Shloss (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLSU

ISBN-10080714245X

ISBN-139780807142455

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038547691

Product Key Features

Number of Pages172 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFlannery O'connor's Dark Comedies : the Limits of Inference

SubjectWomen Authors, American / General, American / Regional

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorCarol Shloss

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIn 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., In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies Carol Shloss 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. This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses several methods to dissect the author's literary devices from the dramatization of extreme religious experience to direct address to the reader.