Wise Blood
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Wise Blood is a darkly comic Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor that follows a disillusioned war veteran who founds a bizarre anti-religious ministry in a decaying Southern town.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wise Blood canonical | 20 |
| Wise Blood (1979 film) | 2 |
| Wise Blood (1952 novel) | 1 |
| Wise Blood (1952) | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Southern Gothic novel
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dark comedy novel ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author |
Flannery O'Connor
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surface form:
Flannery O’Connor
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| basedOn | Wise Blood self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Hazel Motes’s struggle to reject and yet be haunted by Christian belief ⓘ |
| character |
Asa Hawks
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Enoch Emery ⓘ Hazel Motes ⓘ Hoover Shoats ⓘ Leora Watts ⓘ Mrs. Flood ⓘ Sabbath Lily Hawks ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
blindness
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false prophets ⓘ grotesque bodily harm ⓘ religious street preaching ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | John Huston ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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dark comedy ⓘ religious fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Wise Blood
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
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| hasInfluenceOn |
Southern Gothic
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surface form:
American Southern Gothic literature
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| literaryMovement | Southern Gothic literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of Flannery O’Connor’s major works ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic treatment of religious fanaticism
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use of grotesque characters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The novel follows Hazel Motes, a disillusioned war veteran who founds the anti-religious Church Without Christ in a decaying Southern town. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Hazel Motes ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Harcourt Brace & World
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surface form:
Harcourt Brace
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| setInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| setInPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
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| setting | fictional city of Taulkinham, Tennessee ⓘ |
| theme |
faith versus nihilism
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grace and redemption ⓘ religious belief and unbelief ⓘ satire of American Protestantism ⓘ spiritual blindness ⓘ violence and grotesque imagery ⓘ |
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
subject surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
subject surface form:
Flannery O'Connor
subject surface form:
Mary Flannery O'Connor
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1952 novel)
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1979 film)
this entity surface form:
Wise Blood (1952)