This Is My Body: The Saving Knowledge of Suffering Flesh in Flannery O'connor's Wise Blood

Taking up O'Connor's controversial first novel, this essay deals with Wise Blood's, focus on, and often grotesque treatment of, the human body. Noting the unsightly cast and cruel fate the body receives in this book, many critics have argued that Wise Blood offers a Manichean contempt...

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Published in:Religion & literature
Main Author: DeCoste, D. Marcel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dep. 2017
In: Religion & literature
RelBib Classification:AZ New religious movements
CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Blasphemy
B Human Body
B Human body in literature
B Religious Aspects
B Grotesque in literature
B WISE Blood (Book : O'Connor)
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