dc.contributor.author	McCullers, Paula
dc.coverage.spatial	United States. Southern States.	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-29T15:23:06Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-29T15:23:06Z
dc.date.issued	2018-07
dc.identifier.citation	McCullers, Paula. “Finding Religion: The Legacy of the Christ-haunted South in Harry Crews’ A Feast of Snakes.” Master’s thesis, Valdosta State University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3159 [2018].
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/3159
dc.description.abstract	My thesis proposes that Flannery O’Connor’s character the Misfit of the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Joe Lon Mackey, the protagonist of Harry Crews’ novel A Feast of Snakes (1976), share a significant connection that manifests from their upbringing in what O’Connor calls the “Christ-haunted South.” This thesis attempts to create a working interpretation of O’Connor’s phrase “Christ-haunted South” and juxtapose it against the “Christ-centered” alternative. By defining these terms and using Luke Ferretter’s work Towards a Christian Literary Theory as a guide, it intends to explore the texts’ Christian elements to facilitate a better understanding of the culture in which the stories take place and offer instructive criticisms of Christian communities, especially those that have reduced Christianity to mere ideology or spectacle. Specifically, it seeks to establish the Misfit’s struggle as a prototype of the Southern man who exposes the negative ramifications of the “Christ-haunted South.” Furthermore, it examines similar religious implications in A Feast of Snakes, and it suggests that Joe Lon struggles, like the Misfit, to obtain any type of transcendence in the “Christ-haunted” South. This alternative analysis reveals a gap in the current criticism of this text by highlighting the significance of Christian undertones in the novel. Thus, it expressly acknowledges that religion is an integral component of Southern culture and should therefore be addressed in the criticism of its literature, and it implies the need for the examinations of the breadth and depth of theological tropes in modern American literature as a whole. Keywords: Religion	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	Chapter I. INTRODUCTION 1 \| Chapter II. The Prototype in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” 16 \| Chapter III. The Misfit of Mystic 32 \| Chapter IV. CONCLUSION 54 \| REFERENCES 59 \|	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
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dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	English	en_US
dc.subject	O'Connor, Flannery	en_US
dc.subject	Crews, Harry, 1935-2012	en_US
dc.subject	Criticism	en_US
dc.subject	Religion	en_US
dc.subject	Christianity	en_US
dc.subject	American literature	en_US
dc.subject	Southern States	en_US
dc.title	Finding Religion: The Legacy of the Christ-haunted South in Harry Crews’ A Feast of Snakes	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of English of the College of Arts and Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Williams, Marty
dc.description.committee	Buehrer, David
dc.description.committee	James, Christine
dc.description.committee	K da Cruz, Becky
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	English	en_US