About: Literary Onomastics Studies is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Onomastics & Toponymy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0160-8703. Over the lifetime, 96 publications have been published receiving 137 citations.
TL;DR: O'Connor as discussed by the authors found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to face the real world, not just through natural actions, such as the scratching of a hen, the gurgling of an idiot, the spreading of a peacock's tail, but also in an act of violence.
Abstract: ion but a real force which operates through natural actions, in the scratching of a hen, the gurgling of an idiot, the spreading of a peacock's tail, but most frequently in an act of violence. "I have found, " says O'Connor, ''that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to ac-