Frank O'Connor's "world of appearances" : epiphany and false personality in his stories of childhood.

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dc.contributor.advisorRussell, Richard Rankin.
dc.contributor.authorHayes, Ty.
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsBaylor University. Dept. of English.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-08T15:53:18Z
dc.date.available2012-08-08T15:53:18Z
dc.date.copyright2012-05
dc.date.issued2012-08-08
dc.description.abstractThis study illuminates the influence of two vastly different short story writers on the work of Frank O’Connor: James Joyce and Anton Chekhov. O’Connor vowed never to imitate the Russian master, and yet Chekhov’s theme of false personality is present in many O’Connor’s stories involving young children. And while critical attention given to the Joyce-O’Connor connection focuses primarily on O’Connor’s disagreements with Joyce over the aesthetic function of literature; the present study analyzes how O’Connor employs Joyce’s notion of epiphany to bring his child narrators to a moment of discovery about themselves or the world around them. Lastly, this analysis employs O’Connor’s phrase “the world of appearances” to describe the deceitful nature of the world that his child protagonists inhabit. O’Connor emerges from this intertextual close reading in a new light—as the writer of complex, unsentimental, and thoroughly believable stories about children of all ages.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/8432
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.subjectIrish short story.en_US
dc.subjectStories of youth.en_US
dc.subjectFrank O'Connor.en_US
dc.subjectJames Joyce.en_US
dc.subjectAnton Chekhov.en_US
dc.subjectEpiphany.en_US
dc.subjectFalse personality.en_US
dc.titleFrank O'Connor's "world of appearances" : epiphany and false personality in his stories of childhood.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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