Sign Language: Reading Flannery O'Connor's Graphic Narrative - Couverture rigide

Reiniche, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0881467405 ISBN 13 : 9780881467406

Editeur : Mercer University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Flannery O'Connor is unique in that she is not only familiar with seventeenth-century emblematic representations of scriptural truth, but she is also knowledgeable of the conventions of twentieth-century art forms. Her characters are illuminated by textual images formulated from the juxtaposition of scripture, seventeenth- and twentieth-century archetypes, and street detritus that inhabits pictorial sequences exceeding the boundaries of time and diachronically upending O'Connor's narrative world. Her undergraduate single panel cartoons are an excellent starting point when tracing the chronological development of her stylized graphic narrative. The idea of tattooing graphic text on the human body first occurs in the manuscript of WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? and then in her last story, Parker's Back. Flannery O'Connor's graphic narrative, a sign language of dots and lines, discarded objects, and the mutilation of human bodies, provides a stark illuminated manuscript for her readers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Reiniche has proudly spent her life teaching the Language Arts in public secondary education. She holds degrees from The University of Michigan (BA), Grand Valley State University (MA), and the University of Arizona (PhD). Reiniche is currently a lecturer for the English department at University of Arizona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0881467405
• ISBN 13: 9780881467406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 207
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible