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The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor - Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor - Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction (Hardcover)
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Jordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery
O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her
Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is
heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates
the largely undocumented ways in which she used the Bible as source
material for her work. It also shows that, rhetorically, many of
O'Connor's stories (and/or characters) are based upon biblical
models. Furthermore, Cofer explains how O'Connor's stories engage
their biblical analogues in unusual, unexpected, and sometimes
grotesque ways, as her stories manage to convey essentially the
same message as their biblical counterparts. Throughout O'Connor's
work there are significant biblical allusions which have been
neglected or previously undiscovered. This book acknowledges her
biblical source material so readers can understand the impact it
had on her fiction. Cofer argues that readers can better appreciate
her work by examining how her stories are often grounded in
specific biblical texts, which she similarly distorts, exaggerates,
and subverts, in order to shock and teach readers. Simply put,
O'Connor doesn't merely reference these biblical stories, she
rewrites them.
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