| Autor: |
Banco, Lindsey Michael |
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Gothic Studies; Nov2009, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p63-73, 11p |
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This essay explores a link, previously unremarked, in the Southern Gothic novelist Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away (1960) between the drunkenness of the novel's protagonist and the idiot child he is compelled to baptize. Inspired by the possibility that much of the canon of American literature contains a symbolic economy of alcohol - what John Crowley calls 'the White Logic' - I argue that aligning the child with intoxication produces a poetics of addiction that helps explain the redemptive, revelatory climax of the novel in which O'Connor's protagonist fulfills his religious destiny. The novel thus calls for a more complex understanding in American Gothic literature of the protean nature of intoxication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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