Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

by Gary M. Ciuba

Book Overview

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 Ren Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807138630
• ISBN13: 9780807138632
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"