Michael O`Connell Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction 9781531503451

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Автор: Michael O`Connell
Название: Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction
ISBN: 9781531503451
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

Римский католицизм, Римская Католическая церковь

ISBN-10: 1531503454
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.08.2023
Серия: Studies in the catholic imagination: the flannery o`connor trust series
Язык: English
Размер: 139 x 215 x 12
Ключевые слова: Christianity,The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion,RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Подзаголовок: Encounters with american catholic fiction
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in the possibility for transcendent meaning and value beyond the limits of the purely secular. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, which shed light on the narrative techniques that Catholic writers use to point their characters, and their readers, beyond the horizon of secularity and toward an idea of transcendence while also making connections between the widely acknowledged twentieth-century masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts.
This book is focused both on the aspects of craft that Catholic writers employ to shape the reader’s experience of the story and on the effect the story has on the reader. One recurring theme that is central to both is how often Catholic writers use narrative violence and other, similar disorienting techniques in order to unsettle the reader. These moments can leave both characters within the stories and the readers themselves shaken and unmoored, and this, O’Connell argues, is often a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace. Individual chapters look at these themes in the works of Flannery O’Connor, J. F. Powers, Walker Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, George Saunders, and Phil Klay and Kirstin Valdez Quade.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction: “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction | 1
1 The “Blasting Annihilating Light” of Flannery O’Connor’s Art | 17
2 Disorientation and Reorientation in J. F. Powers’s Fiction | 34

Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction, Michael O`Connell