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Record W2547221329 · doi:10.3968/8862

An Analysis of Religious Images in Flannery O’Connor’s Novel Wise Blood

2016· article· en· W2547221329 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicFlannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlanneryO'ConnorMeaning (existential)Context (archaeology)RealmLiteratureStyle (visual arts)PilgrimWriting styleHistoryPhilosophyAestheticsArtTheologyEpistemology

Abstract

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Speaking of the Southern Women’s writing of the 20th century, Flannery O’Connor would be on the top of the list. After two novels and thirty-two stories, Flannery O’Connor, a Roman Catholic living in the American South, passed away of disease at the age of 39. Since her first novel Wise Blood which was published in 1952, her influence on literature and art has steadily been increasing—she won numerous awards in her not long life. According to McFarland, Thinking is that the realm of the Holy interpenetrates this world and affects it. It is the workings of this mystery that she was most concerned with demonstrating in her fiction. By her own explanation, the grotesquerie of her stories is directly related to her Christian perspective. Wise Blood was surely embedded in her religious views and reflected her unique writing style—the use of violence and bizarre characters, and the theological meaning, later to become its strength. Thus, the author tries to present the notions above in this paper, which is divided into five parts. The first part is an introduction of Flannery O’Connor; the second part is a brief analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s writing style. The third part focuses on the Christian cultural context of the novel, and the next part presents religious views of O’Connor through two characters: Hazel Motes and Enoch Emery. The last part is conclusion.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.093
Threshold uncertainty score0.467

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it