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In this volume the author maintains that Flannery O'Connor strongly melded her art and her religious beliefs in her writings, to the point that these two aspects were inseparable and can never exclusive from one another. The author recognizes that O'Connor, like Jesus, conveys her themes through stories that illustrate moral or religious lessons that force readers to take a fresh look at their world because it makes reality live for them in a new...
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Flannery O'Connor is a writer with a keen sense of observation for the subtle cruelty that comes from fear of the unknown, and a case in point is her story "The Displaced Person". Set in Georgia during the late 1940s, the displaced person is Mr. Guizac (Noam Yerushalmi), a Polish refugee who's relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre's (Irene Worth's) farm. Quickly the industrious and clever Mr. Guizac becomes a threat to the...
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This volume is a biography of American novelist, short-story writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor (1926-1964), who despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia, managed to fundamentally change the landscape of American literature with her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories. The author brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships -- with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James...
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This volume presents an analysis of recurrent character types in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction, and "follows fallen men along the path leading to their redemption." The author expands on his premise that Flannery O'Connor depicts the human body as "ugly." He contends that O'Connor viewed her characters as "monsters who assail" and her readers caught "in the gruesome show of the puppet life through which they totter." The author suggests that her...
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Edmondson (government and sociology, Georgia College and State U.) writes what he hopes will serve as a philosophical guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor. He discusses her religious and philosophic beliefs, emphasizing O'Connor's use of fiction to confront and provoke readers with some of the most profound and troubling questions of modern existence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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This volume contains include twenty-eight reviews and critical essays related to American writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor's (1925-1964) life and work. The collection begins with an introduction, which survey's O'Connor's career and the critical reaction to it, the remaining selections are arranged into three sections -- the first, offers twelve reviews dealing with O'Connor's two novels, and her collections of short stories and essays; the second...
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This volume presents a critical study of Flannery O'Connor's stories and novels. The author attempts to situate O'Connor's fiction within a variety of literary contexts -- historical and contemporary -- and to define in general terms the nature of O'Connor's aesthetic and how she responded to the problem of writing for an audience whose fundamental assumptions were likely to be opposed to her own. This work discusses the two novels and selected short...
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The material in this book has a long and interesting history. It all began back in 1964 when Fr. John J. Quinn, S.J., moderator of the new University of Scranton literary journal called Esprit, learned that Flannery O'Connor, the American essayist and short story writer, had died after a lingering illness. Since he was enthusiastic about her and her work, he hit upon the idea of dedicating an issue of Esprit in her memory. So he set about contacting...
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This volume is a miscellaneous collection of critical opinions about the American writer Flannery O'Connor. This collection was conceived more as a representation of many points of view than as a unified approach to Flannery O'Connor's fiction. The editors tried to present a sustained, coherent estimation of Flannery O'Connor's work, from her earliest story, "The Geranium, " through the posthumous volume, Everything That Rises Must Converge. It attempts...
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"In Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, Donald E. Hardy examines themes in Flannery O'Connor's fiction concerning the limitations of human knowledge. He argues that attending to O'Connor's stylistic strategies allows the best access to her views about knowledge in all its manifestations - spiritual, rational, and emotional - whether the knowledge is that of the narrator, the narratee, or the characters of her narratives. It also, he...
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Flannery O'Connor believed that fiction must try to achieve something on the order of what St. Gregory wrote about Scripture: every time it presents a fact, it must also disclose a mystery. O'Connor's artistic vision was located squarely in her Catholic faith, yet she realized that to view life only through the eyes of the Church was to ignore a large part of existence. In her fiction, therefore, she explored a wider world, employing voices that challenged...
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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 in relation to her own work. After introductory chapters on O'Connor's markings in her own Roman Catholic Bible, her book reviews in diocesan newspapers, and her impatience with her wayward readers, Michaels looks first at her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and then at seventeen...
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Drowning in a river, the violent murder of a grandmother in the backwoods of Georgia, the trans-genital display of a freak at a carnival show -- all are shocking literary devices used by Flannery O'Connor, one of literature's best pulp-fiction writers. More than 35 years after her death, readers are still shocked by O'Connor's grotesque images. The author concentrates on O'Connor's use of emblems, those moments of sudden and horrid illumination when...
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This volume contains an examination of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, evaluating the religious themes of the great Southern writer. The author's overall conclusion is that O'Connor writes from an orthodox Christian point of view but doesn't write from a point of view that airs any grievances about religion itself.
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