عنوان

"Incarnational Art":

شماره

LA125254

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"Incarnational Art":

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Thing Theory and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood

نام نخستين پديدآور

Olivia McGuire

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Flannery O'Connor's fiction confounds contemporary critics and readers with its combination of grotesque, violent imagery, and a deeply consistent, thematic concern with religion. This article argues for a new methodology of reading O'Connor that will enrich this seeming incongruence, by first examining the role of objects, such as those in Wise Blood, through the lens of thing theory. Heidegger's idea of the thing and Bill Brown's thing theory offer readers a mode of interpreting objects that expands the traditional sense of symbolism and encourages a broader understanding of the multiple layers of significance-both the functional and metaphysical-encompassed in things that play a major role in Wise Blood, such as the car, gorilla suit, and mummy. Through a close reading of Wise Blood, the author demonstrates thing theory's potential as a tool to account for O'Connor's incarnational aesthetic, and to overcome the tendency to relegate her fiction to purely religious or secular spheres. Flannery O'Connor's fiction confounds contemporary critics and readers with its combination of grotesque, violent imagery, and a deeply consistent, thematic concern with religion. This article argues for a new methodology of reading O'Connor that will enrich this seeming incongruence, by first examining the role of objects, such as those in Wise Blood, through the lens of thing theory. Heidegger's idea of the thing and Bill Brown's thing theory offer readers a mode of interpreting objects that expands the traditional sense of symbolism and encourages a broader understanding of the multiple layers of significance-both the functional and metaphysical-encompassed in things that play a major role in Wise Blood, such as the car, gorilla suit, and mummy. Through a close reading of Wise Blood, the author demonstrates thing theory's potential as a tool to account for O'Connor's incarnational aesthetic, and to overcome the tendency to relegate her fiction to purely religious or secular spheres.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

507-522

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

17/5

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Bill Brown

اصطلاح موضوعی

Flannery O'Connor

اصطلاح موضوعی

Martin Heidegger's "The Thing"

اصطلاح موضوعی

material culture

اصطلاح موضوعی

thing theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Wise Blood

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Olivia McGuire

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-12341298

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y