Blank Gray to its Farthest Reaches: Silence and Ambiguity in Frank O'Connor’s “Bridal Night”
Frank O’Connor’s work is always approached in terms of extremes; on the one hand, we see the world comically through the innocent child narrators of “First Confession” and “My Oedipus Complex”; on the other hand, the tragedy can be seen through the hardened characters in “Guests of the Nation.” Wit...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Frank O’Connor’s work is always approached in terms of extremes; on the one hand, we see the world comically through the innocent child narrators of “First Confession” and “My Oedipus Complex”; on the other hand, the tragedy can be seen through the hardened characters in “Guests of the Nation.” Within each of these stories, the most basic notions of good and evil come into conflict as social and private value structures come into conflict producing moral ambiguities. In each of O’Connor’s st... |
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