오코너의 수사적 글쓰기와 라캉: 「가정의 안락」을 중심으로
O’Connor’s Rhetorics and Lacan’s Theory
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Critics have tried to deal with various shattering elements in O’Connor’s works. Many of them have pointed out how O’Connor’s writing does it. But few of them counted O’Connor’s rhetorics apart from her theological messages. O’Connor reveals her characters’ state of mind in a narrative mode in which the narrator can see inside the mind of one character in the story. As a result what critics have described as the reader’s identification with the narrator is really an identification with the character’s way of seeing. This paper is an attempt to see O’Connor’s character as a rhetorical tool in order to produce a shocking effect on the reader. In reading O’Connor’s characters the reader is shocked into sharing the character’s way of seeing. O’Connor’s characters are forced to see the hollowness of their ego centered morality, and the readers’ ego is shattered by the unexpected elements of her fiction. This paper tries to interpret O’Connor’s portrayal of Christian redemption and the uniqueness of O’Connor’s rhetoric through Lacan’s theory. Through a close reading of “The Comforts of Home”, this paper tries to illuminate the fact that Lacan’s theory helps to explain O’Connor’s rhetoric which eventually brings out her religious purposes.
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Critics have tried to deal with various shattering elements in O’Connor’s works. Many of them have pointed out how O’Connor’s writing does it. But few of them counted O’Connor’s rhetorics apart from her theological messages. O’Connor reveals her characters’ state of mind in a narrative mode in which the narrator can see inside the mind of one character in the story. As a result what critics have described as the reader’s identification with the narrator is really an identification with the character’s way of seeing. This paper is an attempt to see O’Connor’s character as a rhetorical tool in order to produce a shocking effect on the reader. In reading O’Connor’s characters the reader is shocked into sharing the character’s way of seeing. O’Connor’s characters are forced to see the hollowness of their ego centered morality, and the readers’ ego is shattered by the unexpected elements of her fiction. This paper tries to interpret O’Connor’s portrayal of Christian redemption and the uniqueness of O’Connor’s rhetoric through Lacan’s theory. Through a close reading of “The Comforts of Home”, this paper tries to illuminate the fact that Lacan’s theory helps to explain O’Connor’s rhetoric which eventually brings out her religious purposes.
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