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Critical essays on Flannery O'Connor / [edited by] Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on American literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1985.Description: ix, 227 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0816186936
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3565.C57 Z64 1985
Contents:
[pt. 1:] Introduction / Melvin J. Friedman -- [pt. 2:] Reviews. 1. Wise blood. "A case of possession" / John W. Simons -- "Young writer with a bizarre tale to tell" / Sylvia Stallings -- 2. A good man is hard to find. "With a glitter of evil" / Caroline Gordon -- "Two ladies of the South" / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- 3. The violent bear it away. "Flannery O'Connor's violent view of reality" / P. Albert Duhamel -- "A vision deep and narrow" / Frank J. Warnke -- 4. Everything that rises must converge. "Flannery O'Connor" / Warren Coffey -- "If you know who you are you can go anywhere" / Richard Poirier -- 5. Mystery and manners. ["The limits of explanation"] / Frederick Asals -- "On Flannery O'Connor" / Saul Maloff -- 6. The complete stories. "Flannery O'Connor : the canon completed, the commentary continuing" / Melvin J. Friedman -- "Flannery O'Connor : the complete stories" / Alfred Kazin -- [pt. 3:] Reminiscences and tributes. "Gracious greatness" / Katherine Anne Porter -- ["Platitudes and Protestants"] / Allen Tate -- "Flannery O'Connor : a prose elegy" / Thomas Merton -- "Beyond the peacock : the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor" / Alice Walker -- [pt. 4:] Essays. "The outside and the inside : Flannery O'Connor's the violent bear it away" / Sumner J. Ferris -- "Flannery O'Connor's devil" / John Hawkes -- "The audacity of Flannery O'Connor" / Michel Gresset -- "Flannery O'Connor : the Catholic writer as Baptist" / Albert Sonnenfeld -- "Flannery O'Connor's rage of vision" / Claire Kahane -- "Flannery O'Connor in France : an interim report" / Melvin J. Friedman -- "The heresy of Flannery O'Connor" / Andre Bleikasten -- "Rural gothic : the stories of Flannery O'Connor" / Ronald Schleifer -- "O'Connor's unfinished novel" / Marian Bums -- "Singular visions : 'the partridge festival' " / Irving Malin -- "A particular history : black and white in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction" / Janet Egleson Dunleavy -- "A review of O'Connor criticism" / Beverly Lyon Clark and Caroline M. Brown.
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[pt. 1:] Introduction / Melvin J. Friedman -- [pt. 2:] Reviews. 1. Wise blood. "A case of possession" / John W. Simons -- "Young writer with a bizarre tale to tell" / Sylvia Stallings -- 2. A good man is hard to find. "With a glitter of evil" / Caroline Gordon -- "Two ladies of the South" / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- 3. The violent bear it away. "Flannery O'Connor's violent view of reality" / P. Albert Duhamel -- "A vision deep and narrow" / Frank J. Warnke -- 4. Everything that rises must converge. "Flannery O'Connor" / Warren Coffey -- "If you know who you are you can go anywhere" / Richard Poirier -- 5. Mystery and manners. ["The limits of explanation"] / Frederick Asals -- "On Flannery O'Connor" / Saul Maloff -- 6. The complete stories. "Flannery O'Connor : the canon completed, the commentary continuing" / Melvin J. Friedman -- "Flannery O'Connor : the complete stories" / Alfred Kazin -- [pt. 3:] Reminiscences and tributes. "Gracious greatness" / Katherine Anne Porter -- ["Platitudes and Protestants"] / Allen Tate -- "Flannery O'Connor : a prose elegy" / Thomas Merton -- "Beyond the peacock : the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor" / Alice Walker -- [pt. 4:] Essays. "The outside and the inside : Flannery O'Connor's the violent bear it away" / Sumner J. Ferris -- "Flannery O'Connor's devil" / John Hawkes -- "The audacity of Flannery O'Connor" / Michel Gresset -- "Flannery O'Connor : the Catholic writer as Baptist" / Albert Sonnenfeld -- "Flannery O'Connor's rage of vision" / Claire Kahane -- "Flannery O'Connor in France : an interim report" / Melvin J. Friedman -- "The heresy of Flannery O'Connor" / Andre Bleikasten -- "Rural gothic : the stories of Flannery O'Connor" / Ronald Schleifer -- "O'Connor's unfinished novel" / Marian Bums -- "Singular visions : 'the partridge festival' " / Irving Malin -- "A particular history : black and white in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction" / Janet Egleson Dunleavy -- "A review of O'Connor criticism" / Beverly Lyon Clark and Caroline M. Brown.