Of all that is seen and unseen

Author

Jordan Adelle Doherty

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Hagenston, Becky

Committee Member

Shaffer, Donald

Committee Member

Bentley, Greg

Date of Degree

8-8-2009

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of English

Abstract

Of All That Is Seen and Unseen explores the concept the Southern literary identity and how that tradition is fading from modern literature while engaging in a dialogue with Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. However, it proposes that contemporary writers can recover Southern literary identity through three identifying elements of southern literature: family, land, and religion. The chapters focus on the tragic death of a beautiful, young girl and are told from different narrative perspectives. The genre is Southern Gothic and follows the Faulknerian model of creating a fictional place in Mississippi. The chapters are interrelated and feature reoccurring characters.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15550

Comments

gothic||southern||fiction

Recommended Citation

Doherty, Jordan Adelle, "Of all that is seen and unseen" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 3351.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/3351