TY - JOUR
T1 - What Counts
T2 - Social Drama and Connectedness in Flannery O'Connor's "The River" and "Revelation"
AU - Visser, Irene
N1 - Short Author Biography
IRENE VISSER is a Senior Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her publications include Compassion in Faulkner’s Fiction and Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary Texts, and various articles in the fields of anthropology and literature, trauma studies, and postcoloniality.
PY - 2016/9/3
Y1 - 2016/9/3
N2 - This essay explores Flannery O’Connor’s “The River” and “Revelation” from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concepts from social sciences such as social dramas, ritual performance, and symbolic actions illuminate main moments of conflict and reconciliation between characters and their social milieu and aid understanding of the reading experience offered in O’Connor’s stories.
AB - This essay explores Flannery O’Connor’s “The River” and “Revelation” from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concepts from social sciences such as social dramas, ritual performance, and symbolic actions illuminate main moments of conflict and reconciliation between characters and their social milieu and aid understanding of the reading experience offered in O’Connor’s stories.
KW - Flannery O'Connor, social dramas, symbolic actions, Victor Turner, literature and anthropology
UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/630349
M3 - Article
SN - 0027-1276
VL - 49
SP - 143
EP - 159
JO - Mosaic-A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
JF - Mosaic-A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
IS - 3
ER -