THE SHORT FICTION OF EUDORA WELTY, PETER TAYLORAND FLANNERY O’CONNOR: FROM ANECDOTE TO EPIPHANY

Authors

  • I. K. Kudriavtseva Minsk State Linguistic University, 21 Zakharova Str., 220034 Minsk, the Republic of Belarus Author

Keywords:

short story; anecdote; epiphany; 20th-century literature of the American South; E. Welty; P. Taylor; F. O’Connor

Abstract

The article deals with the role of such elements of the short story poetics as the anecdotal situation and the character’s epiphanic insight. The short story’s movement from entertainment to revealing serious moral, social, philosophical and religious issues is demonstrated on the material of the short fiction of Eudora Welty, Peter Taylor and Flannery O’Connor, representatives of the “southern school” of 20th-century American literature. In the analysis of the functioning of the anecdote and the epiphany in the representative works of these authors, the common, typological features are emphasized as caused by the specificity of the regional context, as well as the individual authors’ differences. The introduction of the anecdote and the epiphany into the plots of the short stories becomes for these authors an important tool to reveal the dialectic of the local and the universal that is characteristic of their artistic paradigms.


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Published

2023-02-01

Issue

Выпуск 13. Февраль 2023 года

Section

ФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ. Литературоведение

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