Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1985

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Flannery O'Connor's works show traces of the sublime as it is defined by Edmund Burke. Although she has, up to now, been referred to critically as a Southern, Catholic, Grotesque writer, she should more properly be referred to as a sublime writer, since that kind of pain referred to by Burke, actual or imagined, physical or emotional, is found in her works. By examining Burke's theory of the sublime and comparing it to Flannery O'Connor's use of "terrible objects," things that operate in a "manner analogous to terror," and by observing her characters with their various deformities, both physical and emotional, and their being brought to a recognition of death, the reader can realize the elements which constitute the sublime in Flannery O'Connor's works.

Extent

52 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14255

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