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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Letters to Shenandoah editor Thomas Carter, 1953-57. Milledgeville Georgia January 23, 1953 Dear Mr. Carter, Thank you for your letter. I wish I had something to send you in the way of fiction. What Robie...
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From: The Complete Stories[(essay date 1971) This passage comes from early in “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (1955), when the con man, Tom Shiftlet, first arrives and worms his way into the Craters’ lives. The scene establishes several...
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From: The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor[(essay date 1971) The following excerpt from “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” demonstrates Shiftlet’s moral hypocrisy as he feigns interest in Lucynell to gain access to her mother’s car. ] He had raised the hood...
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From: Everything That Rises Must Converge[(essay date 1965) In the following excerpt, Sheppard, acting as a volunteer counselor at a reform school, seeks to help a troubled youth named Rufus Johnson. ] The boy sat slumped on the edge of his chair, his arms...
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From: Everything That Rises Must Converge[(essay date 1965) In the following excerpt, Mrs. Turpin receives her culminating revelation. ] Until the sun slipped finally behind the tree line, Mrs. Turpin remained there with her gaze bent to them as if she were...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 84, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedFlannery O'Connor, as a literary critic, was quick to decry the kitsch and triteness of contemporary Christian fiction. In "Catholic Novelists," she finds that this "large body of pious trash" comes from artists...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 47, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT From the very beginning, all manner of ideas, concepts and conceits have been advanced to explain America and Americans - as much to themselves as to others. The paper presents a historical-literary...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 67, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPortrayals of evil in contemporary fiction seemed watered down compared to the absolute evil and suffering in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,' Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are you Going, Where Have You...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Flannery told me to practice writing to develop my writing skills. I wrote stories and essays and all manner of things which I took to her for criticism. She would read, cross out, make comments and often have me do...
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From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 20, Issue 2)The Black Sea wasn't tidal, so its waters exhibited a predictable wave action throughout the day--measured, smoothly level, quiescent--not subject to diurnal cycles or oscillating highs and lows, not governed by the...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Flannery O'Connor's humor is sometimes so effective that its purpose seems almost to divert us from our own. I have in mind, for example, Manley Pointer's telling Mrs. Hopewell that he's "not even from a place, just...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. --Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners I myself am afflicted with time[*]...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)It's easy to dismiss American fiction from the 1950s and early 1960s as chronicles from a period of quiescence, or as safe literature that was gathering its strength for the explosion of narrative invention that was to...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Memory Hill, the Milledgeville cemetery which serves as Mary Flannery O'Connor's last resting place, is as innocuous as her family plot--trimmed lawn, cypresses, live oaks, simple stones and flowers, both natural and...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Violent Bear It Away contains several startling incidents: the arson of the opening chapter, the drowning/baptism, and the sodomic rape. It is generally recognized that young Tarwater is torn between the way of life...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 65, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNo reader of Flannery O'Connor can miss the importance of suffering in her short stories. Almost all her central figures undergo physical, psychic, and spiritual pain from a variety of sources--disabilities,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the 1970s, the personal voice has been brought to bear more and more often on literary criticism, leading, Nancy Millet to describe the 1990s as a time of confessional culture that manifested itself in academia...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"A dimension taken away is one thing; a dimension added is another." --Flannery O'Connor, "The Fiction Writer and His Country" "The origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures," writes cultural historian Lewis...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay explores Flannery O'Connor's "The River" and "Revelation" from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concepts from the social sciences such as social dramas, ritual performance, and symbolic actions illuminate...