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The Theatre of the Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
유지헌 대한영어영문학회 2023 영어영문학연구 Vol.49 No.4
Flannery O’Connor is an American author known for her distinctive and influential contributions to Southern Gothic literature. Especially, her exploration of the South’s complex history and her examination of moral and religious questions continue to be studied and admired by scholars and readers alike. This paper provides an analysis of the themes, characters, and style in Wise Blood, highlighting the unique vision and style of O’Connor. In particular, this essay will explore the intersecting themes of grotesque and comedy, as well as religious and moral undertones in Wise Blood. In addition, this essay will investigate how the grotesque and religion are interchangeably used while the notions of blindness and vision are inextricably tied together in Wise Blood.
David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System: Self vs. Other, Identity and Functionality
유지헌 한국중앙영어영문학회 2023 영어영문학연구 Vol.65 No.2
It is well established that David Foster Wallace, the contemporary American writer known for his short stories and essays but probably best known for his 1996 magnum opus, Infinite Jest (1996), had serious and abiding interests in academic philosophy. To date, The Broom of the System (1987) remains one of the less examined works in Wallace’s oeuvre. The novel experiments with form and narrative, both showcasing Wallace’s heteroglossic skill and explorin non-traditional narrative techniques. As post-postmodernist writer, many critics point out that The Broom of the System is influenced by the Ludwig Wittgensteinian theories of language and communication. This essay will analyze The Broom of the System, in terms of the postmodern aesthetic, especially its concern for, and crisis about language, reality and self towards Wallace’s engagement with Wittgenstein’s theory to consider the relationship between functionality and identity. This essay will delineate not only how the distinction and tension between self and other pervades The Broom of the System and but also how (unsuccessful) attempts to construct a stable self rather displays the state of constant anxiety about language, self, and functionality in The Broom of the System.