{"product_id":"the-body-in-flannery-oconnors-donald-e-hardy-9781570036989","title":"The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of literary theory and linguistics, \u003ci\u003eThe Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice--roughly indicating that the subject is acting upon himself or herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy combines computational and linguistic methodology to provide a productive approach to understanding O'Connor's use of the body and its parts in her explorations of the sacramental and the grotesque. Linguistic analysis of grammatical middle voice is coupled with quantitative analysis of body-part words and the collocations in which they appear to present a new point of entrance to understanding O'Connor's stylistic manipulations of the body as central to the rift between spirit and matter. In addition to the middle voice, Hardy approaches ergative and reflexive voice patterns in O'Connor and demonstrates the value in using log-likelihood and dispersion quantitative measures for identifying empirical evidence in literary studies. He shows O'Connor's fiction to be unique even at the sentence level and, moreover, offers an original reading of her work rooted in computational analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this method of reading the struggle between the incarnational and the sacramental in O'Connor, Hardy makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of work that is introducing linguistic terminology and concepts into literary studies and, by extension, the broader field of interpretive humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald E. Hardy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570036985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570036989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.52w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 320","brand":"Donald E. Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096985051391,"sku":"9781570036989","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-body-in-flannery-oconnors-donald-e-hardy-9781570036989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}