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Startling Figures - Encounters with American Catholic Fiction (Paperback)
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Startling Figures - Encounters with American Catholic Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series
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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.
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