Stephen King Talks About Short Stories
Posted on March 8th, 2010

Some people enjoy reading short stories, and some people–for a variety of reasons–avoid them. What about you? Why?
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Reading WISE BLOOD (Part Thirteen)
Posted on March 6th, 2010
Making the Abject Body Count(s):
An Autobiographical Reading of
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
– Part Thirteen: The Abjection of Death Seeks to Destroy Us All (Continued) –
(Note: Previously posted installments of this series have included bibliographies in the form of endnotes for the text’s parenthetical citations; however, hence forth, the bibliographies will be omitted (to save space and time) but are nevertheless available to any reader who requests the complete bibliography for this series.)
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Within Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, her fascination with death seems to metastasize exponentially from the infrequently mentioned cells isolated in her personal experience.
Jennifer H.
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Reading WISE BLOOD (Part Twelve)
Posted on March 2nd, 2010
Making the Abject Body Count(s):
An Autobiographical Reading of
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
– Part Twelve: The Abjection of Death Seeks to Destroy Us All (Continued) –
(Note: Previously posted installments of this series have included bibliographies in the form of endnotes for the text’s parenthetical citations; however, hence forth, the bibliographies will be omitted (to save space and time) but are nevertheless available to any reader who requests the complete bibliography for this series.)
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Now, a brief look at the relationship that exists between parent and child as a central concern in O’Connor’s works.
Wise Blood, like many of O’Connor’s short stories (with “The Enduring Chill” being notable among them for this discussion), creates what Sue Walker views as an ironic version of Kristeva’s view of the abject and the mother-child dyad; with O’Connor we encounter the death-bearing mother whose excessive control leads to death; discussing O’Connor in “The Being of Illness: The Language of Being Ill,” Walker notes that for Kristeva, “abjection shows up as a struggle on the part of the child to separate from the mother.
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Reading WISE BLOOD (Part Eleven)
Posted on February 28th, 2010
Making the Abject Body Count(s):
An Autobiographical Reading of
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
– Part Eleven: The Abjection of Death Seeks to Destroy Us All –
(Note: Previously posted installments of this series have included bibliographies in the form of endnotes for the text’s parenthetical citations; however, hence forth, the bibliographies will be omitted (to save space and time) but are nevertheless available to any reader who requests the complete bibliography for this series.)
Epigraphs
He thought about the chifforobe in his half-sleep and decided his mother would rest easier in her grave, knowing it was guarded.
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Reading WISE BLOOD (Part Ten)
Posted on February 26th, 2010
Making the Abject Body Count(s):
An Autobiographical Reading of
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
– Part Ten: Configuring the Abject (Continued) –
(Note: Previously posted installments of this series have included bibliographies in the form of endnotes for the text’s parenthetical citations; however, hence forth, the bibliographies will be omitted (to save space and time) but are nevertheless available to any reader who requests the complete bibliography for this series.)
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This study before you does not pretend to be an analysis of narrative strategies.
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