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From: College Literature[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Renner suggests a secular interpretation of the conclusion of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."] Just as literature illuminates life, life illuminates literature, sometimes...
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From: Southern Literary Journal[(essay date fall 2000) In the following essay, Schaum examines the archetype of the trickster in O'Connor's short fiction and argues that she provides, through this archetype, a multi-faceted caricature of Lucifer.]...
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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date spring 1990) In the following essay, Ochshorn explores the contradictions between readers' interpretations of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and O'Connor's intentions regarding the story.] Flannery O'Connor...
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From: Flannery O’Connor’s Radical Reality[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Brown relates her experience of visiting O’Connor at Andalusia Farm, discussing how the author’s life there pervades her short fiction.] This essay is a sequel to “Flannery...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Loe focuses on the narrative design of The Ebony Tower, arguing “that it inhabits both a metaphoric and realistic form that convincingly portrays the sometimes contradictory,...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date 2016) In the following interview, conducted in June 2015, Rash discusses his writing process, stylistic choices, and his literary education in relation to his own body of short fiction.] In fall 2014,...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Vasileiou considers the influences of Jungian concepts that O’Connor “considered congruent with Christian philosophy” on her composition of “Everything That Rises Must Converge”...
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From: Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, O’Gorman examines religious prophets and prodigals in the fiction of O’Connor and McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, finding in both a concern with the relationship between...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Bulletin[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Giannone suggests that, although the conclusion of “The Artificial Nigger” may disappoint those looking for a political statement, it offers valuable insights into the functions...
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From: Christianity and Literature[(essay date fall 2006) In the following essay, Nisly contrasts the relationship between reader and text in works by O'Connor and Louisianan author Tim Gautreaux, focusing on "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Welding...
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From: Explicator[(essay date fall 2005) In the following essay, Edgecombe discusses allusions to William Shakespeare's King Lear and Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."] To avoid...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionFlannery O'Connor claimed always to center her fiction on the extraordinary moments of God's grace, when it touches even the most maimed, deformed, or unregenerate of people—especially those; proper Christian literature,...
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From: Shenandoah[(essay date fall 1996) In the following essay, Prunty investigates the role of vacancy in the stories of Peter Taylor and O'Connor.] In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the grandmother is the first to...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Bayless and Redmon demonstrate that the film version of No Country for Old Men “depends on an unacknowledged source”: Flannery O’Connor’s 1953 short story “A Good Man Is Hard to...
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From: Massachusetts Review[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Kahane analyzes O’Connor’s use of the “nigger” figure in her fiction, arguing that the author’s portrayal of Black characters is complex. While O’Connor often portrays Black...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Smith analyzes images of clothing and their relationship to gender identity in two stories from Everything That Rises Must Converge, “Revelation” and “Everything That Rises Must...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, the authors discuss how faithfully the film version of No Country for Old Men reflects the novel, noting that the screenwriters were influenced by O’Connor’s story “A Good Man...
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From: Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, O’Gorman compares violent images in O’Connor’s short stories and her novel The Violent Bear It Away with those in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (2005) and Blood Meridian...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date winter 1996) In the following essay, Bandy disputes O'Connor's interpretation of her short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" as one not of grace and salvation, but rather deeply pessimistic and contrary to...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is an educator and the coordinator of the undergraduate writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses O'Connor's story as a strong example of the author's...