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O'Connor, Flannery - (Mary Flannery O'Connor), 1925–64, American author, b. Savannah, Ga., grad. Women's College of Georgia (A.B., 1945), Iowa State Univ. (M.F.A., 1947). As a writer, O'Connor is highly regarded for her bizarre imagination, uncompromising moral vision, and superb literary style. Combining the grotesque and the gothic, her fiction treats contemporary Southern life in terms

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Flannery O'Connor » Read Now
by Preston M. Browning Jr. 143 pgs.

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...Harry T. Moore, General Editor FLANNERY OCONNOR Preston M. Browning...Data Browning Preston M Flannery OConnor. Crosscurrents modern...Bibliography: p. 1. OConnor...
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The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O'Connor » Read Now
by Melvin J. Friedman, Lewis A. Lawson. 261 pgs.

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American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque » Read Now
by Anthony Di Renzo. 252 pgs.

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...University Press AMERICAN GARGOYLES Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque...Renzo, 1960- American gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the medieval...
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Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love » Read Now
by Richard Giannone. 274 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("Flannery O'Connor" begins on p. 413) » Read Now
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide ("Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)" begins on p. 315) » Read Now
by Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. 516 pgs.

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With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference work provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes...
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With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference work provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes contemporary developments and critical opinion in Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Each entry includes a primary bibliography, a critical essay on the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and a selected, annotated bibliography of scholarship. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today.
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Flannery O'Connor" begins on p. 263) » Read Now
by Laurie Champion. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a...
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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.
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Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook ("Flannery O'Connor" begins on p. 275) » Read Now
by Mary R. Reichardt. 424 pgs.

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Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical entries on 64 Catholic...
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Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and is designed to acquaint the reader with the author, her major works, her Catholic and women's themes, and her critical reception. An introductory essay places the authors in the context and tradition of Catholic writing, and a selected, general bibliography lists works for further reading.
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American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. Two ("Flannery O'Connor: 1925-1964" begins on p. 124)) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 176 pgs.

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Part of an ongoing series covering the texts and lives of the most important women writers of English, this book contains introductory essays by Harold Bloom and provides biographical information, a wide selection of critical excerpts, and complete bibliographies of 11 authors.
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Flannery O'Connor, Laughter, and the Word Made Flesh, in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now
by Mark Boren. 14 pgs.

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...Flannery OConnor, laughter, and the word made flesh by Mark...containment and separation, under an umbrella of laughter, Flannery OConnor forbids identification and...
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"One of My Babies": The Misfit and the Grandmother, in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Stephen C. Bandy. 11 pgs.

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The Saving Rape: Flannery O'Connor and Patriarchal Religion, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by David Havird. 12 pgs.

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...The saving rape: Flannery OConnor and patriarchal religion...her sex" (p. 51). It may be that Mary Flannery OConnor first asserts that authority...and "begins to introduce...
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Flannery O'Connor: "A Late Encounter" with Poststructuralism, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by David J. Knauer. 13 pgs.

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...Flannery OConnor: "A Late Encounter" with poststructuralism...location.(1) Frederick Crews, in his essay "The Power of Flannery OConnor," argues for the ineluctable...
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Revolting Fictions: Flannery O'Connor's Letter to Her Mother, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Ann E. Reuman. 18 pgs.

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...Revolting fictions: Flannery OConnors letter to her mother...Reuman In the middle of one of Flannery OConnors short stories, a character...clearly expressing her...
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The Art of Southern Fiction: A Study of Some Modern Novelists (Chap. 4 "James Agee and Flannery O'Connor: The Religious Consciousness") » Read Now
by Frederick J. Hoffman. 200 pgs.

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...valuable. In a chapter on James Agee and Flannery OConnor, for example, he takes occasion...51 4 James Agee and Flannery OConnor: The Religious...