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The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice

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A reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques

At the intersection of literary theory and linguistics, The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction extends the innovative thesis that it is possible to grasp the central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a close quantitative examination of the interactions of grammatical voice and physical bodies in her texts. Donald E. Hardy demonstrates that the many constructions in which t…