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"Nobody owing nobody nothing": Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Nobody owing nobody nothing": Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas./
Author:	Moccia, Peter J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	181 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10260438
ISBN:	9781369661880

"Nobody owing nobody nothing": Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas.
Moccia, Peter J.

"Nobody owing nobody nothing": Reading Flannery O'Connor anew through the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 181 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.Litt.)--Drew University, 2017.

Emmanuel Levinas famously claimed ethics as the first philosophy, arguing that all metaphysical and epistemological claims should be built upon an understanding of an individual's nonreciprocal responsibility to the other. This dissertation argues that Levinas's ethics offers a framework and language through which to read anew the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. Like Levinas, O'Connor's oeuvre insists upon the individual's nonreciprocal responsibility to the other. Through an explanation and exploration of some of Levinas's most important concepts---namely the face-to-face encounter with the other, nonreciprocal responsibility, alienation, disruption, trauma, and sameness versus otherness---this dissertation reveals how we can understand in new and significant ways the moral fabric and anthropological underpinnings of O'Connor's fiction.

ISBN: 9781369661880Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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520 $a Levinas's ethics helps us connect the characters' solipsism, the violence that populates the fiction, and the stories' moments of grace and conversion. Throughout O'Connor's fiction, isolated and estranged characters are challenged to accept responsibility for the other, whether the other is hired help, like Mr. Guizac in "The Displaced Person"; a grandson, like Nelson in "The Artificial Nigger"; or a violent criminal, like The Misfit from "A Good Man is Hard to Find." In all three stories, the characters must encounter their responsibility to the other prior to having their personal epiphanies. While they encounter a deeply mysterious and spiritual reality, they must first encounter their practical obligation to their fellow man before they can receive the grace of conversion. Levinas explains how this encounter with the other---this encounter with the other as truly other---is disruptive and even traumatic. But O'Connor's fiction, extending Levinas's ethics, also reveals how an acceptance of responsibility can become a gateway into personal fulfillment and even bliss.
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