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New Critical writers of theory: many of them were, in fact,
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Catholic, and many of them were southern.
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There are social and religious elements that infuse their literary theory,
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so that to argue that the poem is this unified whole,
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and that what you should do with the poem is show its wholeness--
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read it in order to see its wholeness,
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see how it embodies a formal beauty, a formal order.
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This looks very much like the kind of metaphysical order that I was drawing out
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of the Catholic version of what O'Connor's doing in her novels,
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her version of what she's doing in the novels,
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where you have that transcendent sky, and there is
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this sense of an ordering that seeps down in to the material world,