Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism

Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781666732214
ISBN-13 : 1666732214
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Book Synopsis Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism by : Rachel Toombs

Download or read book Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism written by Rachel Toombs and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flannery O’Connor and Stylistic Asceticism explores the impact style has not only on a story’s meaning, but on the reading experience. O’Connor’s sparingly wrought stories, particularly in their climactic moments of divine disclosure, invite characters and readers alike into invitations of graced encounters that often wound even as they bless. Flannery O’Connor and Stylistic Asceticism draws out the force and vulnerability in reading spare stories of graced encounters by identifying a kinship with a much older form of storytelling: biblical Hebrew narrative. Focusing on the climactic scenes of O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Genesis 32’s account of Jacob’s nighttime wrestling, Rachel Toombs offers a fresh take on the theological impact of spare narration. These stories invite readers into a posture akin to prayer where in an uncluttered space we see ourselves as we truly are and there meet God.


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