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From: American Gargoyles: Flannery O’Connor and the Medieval Grotesque
The Last Laugh and the Liberty of December: The Grotesque as Carnival, Danse Macabre, and Apocalypse
[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Di Renzo offers an analysis of O’Connor’s satirical vision that combines deep knowledge of medieval Christianity (particularly the Catholic feasts) and the ideas of Russian... -
From: Flannery O’Connor’s Radical Reality[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Montgomery explains that O’Connor’s Catholicism was likely to make her suspect in the South and so she often used indirection when discussing her religion in her fiction. ]...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Piggford establishes an “ecumenical” link between the Catholic O’Connor and the Jewish philosopher Buber, whose work—especially his book The Eclipse of God (1952), a copy of...
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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...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionIn "Revelation," Flannery O'Connor juxtaposes humor and tragedy, inverts traditional assumptions about the judging of individuals to be good or bad, exaggerates certain characteristics of the people she creates,...
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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: Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Bosco notes that the “color palette” in O’Connor’s stories is very descriptive, including terms like “monkey white” and “polluted lemon yellow.” Bosco finds that O’Connor’s...
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From: The Gospel according to Flannery O’Connor: Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction[(essay date 2014) In the following excerpt, Cofer reads the story in light of several biblical intertexts, namely the book of Job, the book of Revelation, and especially the story of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Ciuba discusses the hard of hearing and what they signify in O’Connor’s fiction, including “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (1953), in which Lucynell demonstrates the...
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From: Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Srigley argues that Ruby Turpin’s revelatory experience in “Revelation” (1964) is a “purgatorial vision” that “provides an interpretive clue, not only for the final ‘vision’ of...
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From: Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor[(essay date 2020) In the following essay, Beeson examines praxis—“the careful balance of action and reflection”—in “The Lame Shall Enter First” (1962). Beeson relates this concept to that of charity in the story but...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFlannery O'Connor is no stranger to scribbling lines that leave readers stumped as to their meaning, yet the title of one of her final stories, "Revelation" (1965), promises to "reveal," to enlighten readers. The word...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 82. )[(essay date 1996-97) In the following essay, Wood applies O'Connor's writings on manners to her story "Judgement Day."] Against those who would use art for other purposes, even the noblest moral aims, Helen Vendler...
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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:Reference Guide to Short FictionPerhaps there was a time when Flannery O'Connor was regarded chiefly as a cult author adored by Catholic readers on the basis of her unusual southern Catholic background, but those days are gone forever. Her fiction and...
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From: The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Farnham recalls a meeting he had with O'Connor, which may suggest a source for the genesis of "Parker's Back."] Karl-Heinz Westarp's fine report in the 1982 Flannery O'Connor...
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From: Modern Age[(essay date summer-fall 1983) In the following essay, Desmond examines the role of historicism and the aesthetic of memory in O'Connor's work.] The question of Flannery O'Connor's place in the tradition of modern...
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From: Flannery O'Connor[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Tuck McFarland analyzes the different instances of rising and convergence in the stories from O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge.] The stories in O'Connor's second...
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From:Novels for Students (Vol. 21. )In Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, the reader gets an in-depth look at religious fundamentalism. O'Connor skillfully lets the reader see the effects of such fundamentalism through the eyes of an old man who...
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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...