The Study of Uncanny in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
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This study on Flannery O'Connor'sWise Blood(1952) attempts to
examine uncanny elements in the novel because the characters seem
grotesque as they are involved in unreasonable violence, murder, sexual
perversion and self-immolation in a non-realist and supernatural way. The
violence and murder of the novel transpire virtually without subjects.
Moreover, use of the character double, fear of evil eye, and random
repetitions of events are the characters of uncanny in the novel.