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Flannery O'Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.
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First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical…
Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories…
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A literary treasure of over 100 unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends which explores such themes as creativity, faith, suffering, and…
Includes three essays on regional writing, including The Fiction Writer and His Country and Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction ; two pieces on teaching literature, including Total…
Flannery O'Connor’s famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.
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Leon V. Driskell,Joan T. Brittain
Flannery O'Connor was a writer of extraordinary power and virtuosity. This study focuses on Flannery O'Connor’s sense of the coincidence of the eternal and cosmic with worldly time and place…
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
This book brings together O'Connor’s practice of prayer and the rich spiritual context within which O'Connor lived and out of which she wrote.
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Este livro aborda a tematica do desenvolvimento e da adaptacao social do ser humano na obra literaria da autora norte americana Flannery O'Connor. Tais topicos orientam o estudo na busca…
Cynthia Seel (Royalty Account)
The first study of the importance of ritual in the works of O'Connor, with in-depth analysis of six of the writer’s works.
The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys Edited by C. Ralph Stephens In 1953 Flannery O'Connor was so pleased by Brainard Cheney’s review of her much misunderstood first…
Realist of Distances - Flannery O'Connor Revisited
This collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South’s most acclaimed twentieth-century writers: Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon.
This girl is a real novelist , wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of her first novel. This collection of letters and other…
A tribute to the art of the short story and an anthology of some of today’s most exciting writers, this tenth anniversary volume brings together one story from each of…
Angela Ailamo O'Donnell
Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and…
Jerome C. Foss
Flannery O'Connor’s fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent…
Ralph C. Wood
Shows how O'Connor’s stories, novels, and essays impinge on America’s cultural and ecclesial condition. The author uses O'Connor’s work as a window onto its own regional and religious ethos. He…
Craig Amason,Sarah Gordon
Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O'Connor’s readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked-places whose features and details sometimes found their way into…
The first book-length study of O'Connor’s complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence, contends that O'Connor’s race-haunted writing serves as the literary incarnation of her…
Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period.
Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period. Gives syllabus…
Amy Alznauer
I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that, in the end, the last word will be theirs. – Flannery O'Connor.
Jon Lance Bacon
This book reconsiders Flannery O'Connor, known primarily for her Catholicism. By recovering the historical circumstances in which Flannery O'Connor wrote her fiction, Jon Lance Bacon reveals an artist concerned with…
Dr James Lewis McLeod
Outside of Milledgeville, Georgia, was the Cline?O?Connor farm, Andalusia. Seated on the veranda in a rocking chair overlooking the sloping hills was a badly crippled woman, slowly degenerating from lupus…
Korean edition of A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O'Connor. This is one of the greatest American short story collections depicting the emotions and life-styles of the…
Carol Shloss
This valuable study of Flannery O'Connor’s style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author’s use of hyperbole, distortion, allusion, analogy, the dramatization of extreme religious experience, the manipulation of judgment…
John F. Desmond
Argues that Flannery O'Connor’s orthodox Catholic theology stands at the centre of her vision, providing the metaphysical base from which her fiction evolved. Given this religious context, it contends that…
Ramsey Michaels
This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible…
John D. Sykes
By disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that…
Carter W. Martin
Intended for a general audience as well as the scholar and student, this first full-length study of Flannery O'Connor’s fiction available again in a paperback edition.
Melvin Friedman,Lewis Lawson
In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor’s Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American…
Karl-Heinz Westrap
What is it that shocks newcomers to the works of Flannery O'Connor and what makes them return? The perfection of her language and her images allures her readers, the precision…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor’s A Circle in the Fire, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
J. Ramsey Michaels
A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor’s Wise Blood, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Patrick Samway, S.J.
This book chronicles Flannery O'Connor’s relationship with her editor Robert Giroux, who edited her three books, as well as with her circle of friends and fellow writers.
Timothy J. Basselin
Literature critic and theologian Timothy Basselin consults Flannery O'Connor’s life and work to illustrate the connections existing between the theme of the grotesque and Christian theology. O'Connor’s own disability, Basselin…
Ann Napolitano
In Flannery O'Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself, in this biographical novel.
Aberjhani
How does anyone greet an iconic author--like Flannery O'Connor, James Alan McPherson, or John Berendt--at the back door of his or her mind? Is such a thing even possible? Maybe…
On the subject of the feminist business: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays that responds to mainstream feminist theory in approaching O'Connor’s fiction. These innovative readings…
Did Flannery O'Connor really write the way she did because and - not in spite of - her Catholicism? Revelation and Convergence brings together professors of literature, theology, and history…