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Description

1 online resource (xv, 343 pages).

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Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On Flannery O'Connor and the short story/romance tradition / Charles E. May -- Biography of Flannery O'Connor / Charles E. May -- The Paris review perspective / Paul Elie for The Paris review -- Flannery O'Connor and the art of the story / Susan Srigley -- The "Christ-haunted" South : contextualizing Flannery O'Connor / John Hayes -- Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, and the writer's "true country" / Avis Hewitt -- Flannery O'Connor : critical reception / Irwin H. Streight -- Flannery O'Connor and the art of the holy / Arthur F. Kinney -- Flannery O'Connor's "spoiled prophet" / T.W. Hendricks -- Flannery O'Connor's misfit and the mystery of evil / John Desmond -- "Wingless chickens" : "Good country people" and the seduction of nihilism / Henry T. Edmondson III -- "Through our laughter we are involved" : Bergsonian humor in Flannery O'Connor's fiction / J.P. Steed -- Carnival in the "temple" : Flannery O'Connor's dialogic parable of artistic vocation / Denise T. Askin -- Flannery O'Connor's empowered women / Peter A. Smith -- The domestic dynamics of Flannery O'Connor : everything that rises must converge / Bryant N. Wyatt -- "The artificial nigger" and the redemptive quality of suffering / Richard Giannone -- Wise blood : O'Connor's romance of alienation / Ronald Emerick -- From manners to mystery : Flannery O'Connor's titles / Marie Lienard -- Called to the beautiful : the incarnational art of Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / Christina Bieber -- Resources -- Chronology of Flannery O'Connor's life -- Works by Flannery O'Connor -- Bibliography.

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Print version record.

Language

English.

Summary

This volume introduces Flannery O'Connor through essays that clarify her religious ideas, her narrative technique, her use of humor, and the regional and social context of her fiction. It also examines the role of female characters, social reality, domestic relations, romance, and symbolism, and discusses her choice and use of the short story form.

Subject

O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.

O'Connor, Flannery.

Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.

Women and literature.

Southern States.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Added Author

May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-

Other Form:

Print version: Flannery O'Connor. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587658310 (DLC) 2011019111 (OCoLC)725297719

ISBN

9781587658846 (electronic bk.)

1587658844 (electronic bk.)