"Grace and the Grotesque"
(Engl 354)
The Bible as Literature
and in Literature and the Arts


"There are ages when it is possible to woo the reader; there are
others when something more drastic is necessary" (820).
Flannery O'Connor's "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1957; 1965)
baptism
water
Eucharist
blood
apologia
film
poetry
Course Guidelines
Bible
painting
fiction
love
family
storge
friendship
     
phileo
      
     
romance
      
     
eros
      
     
lust
      
     
Venus
      
     
charity
      
     
agape
      
     
Christ
      



One central light source with four rays of light going to each corner of the work. Human figures in each section
The Railway Station at Perpignan (1965)
oil on canvas
Salvador Dali

Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu