Startling figures: encounters with American Catholic fiction
"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 bel...
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2023
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in the Catholic imagination: the Flannery O'Connor Trust series
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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""-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 176 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781531503468 9781531503451 |
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction. “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction 1 The “Blasting Annihilating Light” of Flannery O’Connor’s Art 17 2 Disorientation and Reorientation in J. E Powers’s Fiction 34 3 Walker Percy and the End of the Modern World 53 4 Tim Gautreaux and a Postconciliar Approach to Violence 73 5 Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott 92 6 “Life Is Rough and Death Is Coming”: George Saunders and the Catholic Literary Tradition 112 Epilogue. Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature 133 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 151 Works Cited 165 Index 173
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. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, making connections between the widely acknowledged twentiethcentury masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts. Although characters in these stories frequently struggle with doubt and fear, the works retain a belief in the possibility of transcendent meaning and value. By shedding light on the narrative techniques these writers use to unsettle and disorient both their characters and their readers, O’Connell demonstrates that these startling moments often function as a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace.
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Contents Introduction. “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction 1 The “Blasting Annihilating Light” of Flannery O’Connor’s Art 17 2 Disorientation and Reorientation in J. E Powers’s Fiction 34 3 Walker Percy and the End of the Modern World 53 4 Tim Gautreaux and a Postconciliar Approach to Violence 73 5 Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott 92 6 “Life Is Rough and Death Is Coming”: George Saunders and the Catholic Literary Tradition 112 Epilogue. Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature 133 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 151 Works Cited 165 Index 173
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. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, making connections between the widely acknowledged twentiethcentury masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts. Although characters in these stories frequently struggle with doubt and fear, the works retain a belief in the possibility of transcendent meaning and value. By shedding light on the narrative techniques these writers use to unsettle and disorient both their characters and their readers, O’Connell demonstrates that these startling moments often function as a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace. |
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