This book offers a unique twist to the Who's Who of midcentury writers, editors, and artists.

Much is made of Flannery O'Connor's life on the Georgia dairy farm, Andalusia-a rural…

Las historias de este libro hiriente y sobrecogedor tienen como escenario los pueblos y las tierras del sur de Estados Unidos, un mundo decrepito y en ruinas cuyo secular abandono…

Offers a literary and philosophical analysis of Flannery O'Connor’s life and literature. It draws upon Robert Coles’s personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late…

Illustrates how Flannery O'Connor’s stories dramatize elements of the Bible coming alive, anachronistically, in different times and social settings –

Presents an innovative study of Flannery O'Connor’s fiction by exploring the dialogic forces at work in her writing. Drawing on the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Brinkmeyer offers an explanation…

My book aims to help readers understand and appreciate O'Connor’s novels and short stories. It weaves together her place -Milledgeville, Georgia; her purpose-to write a good story; and her preoccupations-belief…

Seeing Flannery O'Connor in the company of poets, rather than realistic prose writers, this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world…

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…