EXPLORING THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC ELEMENTS, VIOLENCE AND SUFFERINGS IN THE SELECT SHORT FICTION OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Southern Gothic

A Good Man is a Trickster to Find

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Tye
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
American South ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Southern Gothic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The American South ◽  
Over The Top ◽  
Traditional Storytelling

In my presentation, I will demonstrate the contrast between the pioneer of the Southern Grotesque, Flannery O’Connor, and her famous story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” with Taylor’s use of the gothic in his YA novel. O’Connor adapted her version of the gothic from her predecessors such as Shelley and Poe. But she veers away from the creation of a fantastical monster tradition of the Romantics to drive the focus of the “monstrous” to the very human but harmful behaviors of her characters. Similarly, Taylor’s narrative does away with the over-the-top fantasy of the Romantic tradition and instead chooses to set the narrative in a realistic space with relevant characters. The difference between O’Connor and Taylor is that in O’Connor’s Southern Gothic the setting is the pinnacle of her story while Taylor’s Indigeneity shines through with his humor, traditional storytelling, and orality in his narrative. Differences aside, it is clear that the motive of each text is a call for social reform in O’Connor’s criticism of the social structure of the American South and in Taylor’s criticism of colonization.

scholarly journals An Interview with Tony Ardizzone

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Marino
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Evening News ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Foundation Award

Tony Ardizzone was born and raised on the North Side of Chicago and is the author of eight books of fiction. His most recent work includes the novel The Whale Chaser and an interconnected story collection set in Rome, By the Fountain of the Four Rivers. He has also written the novels In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu, Heart of the Order, and In the Name of the Father, as well as the story collections Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco, Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood, and The Evening News. Ardizzone's writing has been awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, the Lawrence Foundation Award, as well as two individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Flannery O'Connor and religious epistemology

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-369
Author(s):  
JASON BAEHR
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Epistemic Virtue ◽  
Religious Epistemology ◽  
Southern Gothic ◽  
Intellectual Character ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
Intellectual Skills

AbstractWhat are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain.

scholarly journals Three Sophisticated Ladies and Their Turns of Discourse: Edith Wharton, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Munro

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Anca Peiu
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Special Concern

Abstract My paper focuses on certain “turns of discourse” which can make the main messages of literary masterpieces by Edith Wharton, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Munro communicate, despite differences in time, space, culture. Thus the label of feminism may be superficial here. What these three writers of canonical world literature share is a fine gift for feminine irony, that is responsible for both their stylistic virtuosity and their thematic choices. I was particularly interested in their intricate views and ways of dealing with the difficulties of the mother-daughter relationship in their exclusively concise short fiction. The horror, (hurt) hubris, and humility of actually living such life experiences and then turning them into literary artifacts have represented my special concern here. The sweet sharp thorns of this classic challenge in real life can make of it the inexhaustible literary theme confirmed by each one and all of these “three sophisticated ladies” in their splendid works.

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