Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation

"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...

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Main Author: Sykes, John, 1952-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
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245 1 0 |a Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the aesthetic of revelation  |h [electronic resource] /  |c John D. Sykes, Jr. 
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300 |a xiii, 192 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index. 
505 0 |a O'Connor and new criticism -- Romantic symbol and the Catholic revival -- O'Connor and the body : incarnation, redemptive suffering, and evil -- O'Connor on divine self-disclosure : Eucharist as revelation -- Helen Keller and the message in the bottle : Percy on language -- Percy's novelistic quest for faith -- Surviving apocalypse through hope and love -- Southern strangers and the sacramental community. 
520 |a "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. 
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