Sermon on the Hood of an Essex

Flannery O'Connor's readers have not discussed the centrality of the Wise Blood sermon. The novel includes five dialogue sermons that may be considered as a five-part discourse, from exordium through conclusion. Full of fits and starts like Hazel's car, the sermon is integral to the novel, even central to its action, particularly that related to Hazel's character growth. In sermon delivery Hazel rhetorically tries out numerous belief systems. The sermon occasion thus becomes a learning experience for him. The interruption/completion of the sermon, via ghostly doubles, leads to Hazel's apparent epiphany

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• The Dialogic Imagination

  M M Bakhtin, Michael Holquist et al.•The Dialogic Imagination•1982

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• A Fondness for Supermarkets

  Open Access•Jan Lance Bacon•New Essays on Wise Blood•1995

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• Verbal art as performance

  Richard Bauman•Verbal art as performance•1977

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• Understanding Flannery O'Connor

  John F Desmond, Margaret Earley Whitt•American Literature•1996

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• Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque

  A R Coulthard, Marshall Bruce Gentry•American Literature•1987

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• The Landscape of Nightmare

  Irving Malin, Jonathan Baumbach•American Literature•1965

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• The Christian Humanism of Flannery O'Connor

  Irving Malin, David Eggenschwiler•American Literature•1973

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• A Wreck on the Road to Damascus

  Sheryl L Meyering, Brian Abel Ragen•American Literature•1991

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• The Cage of Matter

  William Rodney Allen•American Literature•1986

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• The rhetoric of heteroglossia in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood

  Mary Frances Hopkins•Quarterly Journal of Speech•1989

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