Desire, violence & divinity in modern southern fiction : Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy and Walker Percy, expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic René Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model. Mimetic desire may lead in turn to rivalry, cruelty, and ultimately community-sanctioned -and sometimes ritually sanctified-victimization of those deemed ou
eBook, English, ©2007
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 287 pages).
9780807138649, 0807138649
744544600
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. THE HANGED MAN AT OLD SARDIS CHURCH: The Culture of Violence and the Violence of Culture in the South; 2. "GIVEN ONLY ME FOR MODEL": Porter's "Miranda" Stories and the Dilemmas of Mimetic Desire; 3. "LIKE A BOULDER BLOCKING YOUR PATH": O'Connor's Skandalon in The Violent Bear It Away; 4. MCCARTHY'S ENFANT TERRIBLE: Incarnating Sacred Violence in Child of God; 5. NO MORE FOR AZAZEL: Victimizing the Sign and Signifying the Victim in Percy's: The Thanatos Syndrome; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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