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FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND BURKE'S THEORY OF THE SUBLIME (SOUTHERN, GROTESQUE, CATHOLIC)

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1985
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Flannery O'Connor's works show traces of the sublime as it is defined by Edmund Burke. Although she has, up to now, been referred to critically as a Southern, Catholic, Grotesque writer, she should more properly be referred to as a sublime writer, since that kind of pain referred to by Burke, actual or imagined, physical or emotional, is found in her works. By examining Burke's theory of the sublime and comparing it to Flannery O'Connor's use of "terrible objects," things that operate in a "manner analogous to terror," and by observing her characters with their various deformities, both physical and emotional, and their being brought to a recognition of death, the reader can realize the elements which constitute the sublime in Flannery O'Connor's works.
Title: FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND BURKE'S THEORY OF THE SUBLIME (SOUTHERN, GROTESQUE, CATHOLIC).
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Name(s): MUNCY, EMILY MAXWELL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 52 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Flannery O'Connor's works show traces of the sublime as it is defined by Edmund Burke. Although she has, up to now, been referred to critically as a Southern, Catholic, Grotesque writer, she should more properly be referred to as a sublime writer, since that kind of pain referred to by Burke, actual or imagined, physical or emotional, is found in her works. By examining Burke's theory of the sublime and comparing it to Flannery O'Connor's use of "terrible objects," things that operate in a "manner analogous to terror," and by observing her characters with their various deformities, both physical and emotional, and their being brought to a recognition of death, the reader can realize the elements which constitute the sublime in Flannery O'Connor's works.
Identifier: 14255 (digitool), FADT14255 (IID), fau:11065 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Subject(s): O'Connor, Flannery--Aesthetics.
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797.
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