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Twenty-Three Years Later
1975
Two Ph.D. dissertations about Wise Blood are completed:
- "Flannery O'Connor and Wise Blood: The Significance of the Early Drafts" (James Oliver Tate, Columbia University, 241 pages)
- "The Centre Cannot Hold: A Close Textual Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, to Reveal its Mythopoetic Dimensions and the Informing Archetypes that Create Richness and Density and Carry the Ambiguity" (Lloyd Charles Welling, Carnegie-Mellon University, 194 pages)
Over 230 Ph.D. dissertations have been completed about Flannery O'Connor's writings.
| Disertation Characteristics | |
| AUDIENCE: | Other scholars and students |
| AUTHOR: | Graduate students |
| SELECTION PROCESS: | Approved by a committee of faculty members; Usually "unpublished" and only available in the library of the university where the degree was granted (unless it is revised and published as a regular book or its sections published as journal articles) |
| TIMELINESS: | Takes at least a year, usually more, to research and write |
| CONTENT: | Concentrates on a specific scholarly question, such as examining changes between draft versions of the novel. Provides insight into cutting-edge ideas and areas where little published research has been done. Includes extensive documentation. |
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