Flannery O'connor's Gothic Art/ Art Gothique de Flannery O'connor (Report‪)‬

According to Oxford Literary Terms "Gothic novel or Gothic romance, a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle or monastery. (Baldick, 1996:92) The grotesque is frequently found as an accompanying or subsidiary feature to such literary forms as the Gothic and the Fantastic. It may be characterized as a deformation of the real-life, with verisimilitude yielding to caricature, often of human features, and of plant and animal forms. The term 'a grotesque' may also be applied to a combination of the comic and the serious may be realized, often satirically, in the form of unexpected transitions: from forced elevated rhetoric to abrupt comic denouement. 1. GOTHIC