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Rachel Toombs
Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism explores the impact style has not only on a story's meaning, but on the reading experience. O'Connor's sparingly wrought stories, particularly in their climactic moments…
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Regis Martin
Dr. Martin’s keen analysis, informed by a life’s work as literary critic and theologian, reveals the central action of O'Connor’s stunning fiction - the violent breaking-in of grace into lives…
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Flannery O'Connor
There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge…
Original publication and copyright date: 1955.
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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…
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…
A literary treasure of over 100 unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends which explores such themes as creativity, faith,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…
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.
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…
This bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literature
When she died in 1964, Flannery O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished…
Thirty-one tales depicting the humorous, if near tragic conditions of life in the Deep South during the fifties.
An astonishing tale of redemption, retribution and wisdom and a savage satire of America’s secular, commercial culture, as well as the humanism it holds so dear.
Flannery O'Connor’s famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.
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…
Ted R. Spivey
Flannery O'Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary evaluates O'Connor from the standpoint of one who knew her well and corresponded with her for six years on significant religious and…
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…
An anthology of short stories collected in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. This volume brings together one story from each of the…
Realist of Distances - Flannery O'Connor Revisited
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Reading Flannery O'Connor’s letters, one feels the living presence in them. Their tone, their content, and even the number of those she corresponded with, reveal the vivid life that was…
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…
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.
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…
Simplified Chinese edition of A Good Man is Hard To Find and Other Stories by Flannery OConnor. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Ruthann Knechel Johansen
O'Connor’s endeavor to write engaging narratives, at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world
