Flannery O'Connor / editor, Charles E. May, California State University, Long Beach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Flannery O'Connor

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Connor, Flannery.

Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 343 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes previously published essays that clarify her religious ideas, her narrative technique, her use of humor, and the regional and social context of her fiction. Original essays discuss the religious context of such stories as "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People". Other essays explore O'Connor's use of humor in the story "Temple of the Holy Ghost" as well as her two short novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away.

Contents:

Cover

Index

Agriculture. See Nature and agriculture

Alienation, 119, 180, 252, 268, 276, 287

American Novel and Its Tradition, The (Chase), 6

Andalusia, 21

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 60, 115, 144, 165, 202, 294

Art, 292, 296

"Artificial Nigger, The" (O'Connor), 5, 50

and rejection, 235, 256

title, 285

writing of, 256

Asals, Frederick, 93, 257

Askin, Denise T., x, 332

Auerbach, Erich, 7

Bacon, Jon Lance, 98, 103

Bailey ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 129, 283

Bailey, John Wesley ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 129

Bailey, June Star ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 130

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 93, 194

Baldwin, James, 46

Barth, Karl, 66

Baumgaertner, Jill Peláez, 88

Bergson, Henri, 176

Biblical allusions, 29, 117

in "The Artificial Nigger," 256, 264, 266

in "The Displaced Person," 118

in "The Enduring Chill," 240

in "Parker's Back," 250

in "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," 118

in The Violent Bear It Away, 298. See also Catholicism

Bieber, Christina. See Lake, Christina Bieber

Bierce, Ambrose, 8

Bishop (The Violent Bear It Away), 296

Bleikasten, André, 102, 270

Bloom, Harold, 80, 96

Bobby Lee ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 138

Boyd, Powell ("A Circle in the Fire"), 213

Brinkmeyer, Robert, 102

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 37, 162

Browning, Preston, Jr., 88

Burns, Stuart, 92

Burroughs, William, 95

Butts, Red Sammy ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 130

Caldwell, Erskine, 55

Camus, Albert, 147, 287

Cartesian philosophy, 166

Carver, Raymond, 6

Cash, Jean, 17

Cassirer, Ernst, 11

"Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South, The" (O'Connor), 40, 53

"Catholic Novelists and Their Readers" (O'Connor), 206

Catholicism, 17, 31, 43, 72, 113, 207

pilgrimage to Lourdes, 21, 190. See also Biblical allusions.

Chase, Richard, 6

Chesterton, G. K., 92

Children, 38, 129, 137, 190, 204, 213, 223

Christ and Apollo (Lynch), 7

Christ figures, 33

"Circle in the Fire, A" (O'Connor), 117, 211

Ciuba, Gary, 100

Civil Rights movement, 49-50

Coetzee, J. M., 24

Coleman ("Judgement Day"), 252

Coles, Robert, 82, 91, 127

"Comforts of Home, The" (O'Connor), 50, 241

Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, The (O'Connor), 3, 83

Conrad, Joseph, 14, 115

Cope, Mrs. ("A Circle in the Fire"), 213, 221

Cope, Sally Virginia ("A Circle in the Fire"), 214

Crater, Mrs. ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"), 224

Crews, Frederick, 68, 71, 102

Desmond, John, ix, 88, 332

Dinesen, Isak, 12

"Displaced Person, The" (O'Connor), 5, 50, 116, 211

and Purgatory, 36

title, 287

Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 258, 261-262

Donahoo, Robert, 94, 98, 102

Donoghue, Denis, 63

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 34, 162

Drake, Robert, 84, 126

Duality, 199, 275

Eagleton, Terry, 10, 281

Edmondson, Henry T., III, ix, 103, 332

Eliade, Mircea, 12, 15, 117

Elie, Paul, xiv, 331

Eliot, T. S., 119, 170

Emerick, Ronald, xii, 333

Emery, Enoch (Wise Blood), 55, 268, 276

"Enduring Chill, The" (O'Connor), 50, 216, 239

Engle, Paul, 19

Everything That Rises Must Converge (collection), 22

critical reception, 80, 86

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" (story), 50, 123, 217

Evil, 144, 188, 311

Exegesis, 7, 31

Exodus, 35

Farebrother ("The Comforts of Home"), 244

Farming. See Nature and agriculture

Fathers and fatherhood

in "The Artificial Nigger," 235, 256, 258

in "The Comforts of Home," 244

in "Judgement Day," 252

in "The Lame Shall Enter First," 241, 245

in "A View of the Woods," 236

in The Violent Bear It Away, 293, 300

Faulkner, William, 43, 47, 99, 289

Feeley, Sister Kathleen, 87.

Femininity, 211, 221, 229

Feminism, 103, 244

Fiondella, Maris, 285

"First Cardinal's Tale, The" (Dinesen), 12

Fitzgerald, Robert, 20, 81

Fitzgerald, Sally, 17, 20, 81, 99

Flannery (Gooch), 17

Flannery O'Connor: A Life (Cash), 17

Flood, Mrs. (Wise Blood), 275

Foley, Doctor ("Judgement Day"), 252

Fortune ("A View of the Woods"), 236, 289

Fox, Asbury ("The Enduring Chill"), 216, 239

Fox, Mrs. ("The Enduring Chill"), 216, 240

Free indirect discourse, 196, 204

Freeman, Mrs. ("Good Country People"), 184

Freeman, Mrs. ("Good Country People"), 182

Freudian psychology, 101

Friedman, Melvin, 3

Frye, Northrop, 8

Gender roles, 200, 211, 214, 221, 225, 229. See also Femininity, Masculinity

Gentry, Marshall Bruce, 93, 206

"Geranium, The" (O'Connor), 20

Giannone, Richard, xii, 89, 192, 333

Girard, René, 100

Giroux, Robert, 18, 24, 156

Golden, Robert E., 83

Gonga the gorilla (Wise Blood), 278

Gooch, Brad, 17

"Good Country People" (O'Connor), 5, 50, 117

humor, 182

nihilism, 155, 172

writing of, 156

"Good Man Is Hard to Find, A" (O'Connor), 33, 129

and evil, 144

humor, 186

role of Misfit, 128

title, 144

Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories, A (O'Connor), 22, 79

title, 283

Gordon, Caroline, 100

Gordon, Sarah, 91, 104

Grandmother ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 130, 284

and death, 63

and evil, 149

and humor, 186

revelation, 136, 186

"Greenleaf" (O'Connor), 34, 50, 118, 211

and feminism, 244

and motherhood, 233

and rejection, 235

and religion, 38

and social class, 220

title, 288

Greenleaf, Mr. ("Greenleaf"), 223

Greenleaf, Mrs. ("Greenleaf"), 38, 233

Greiner, Donald, 67

Griffith, Ben, 5, 79, 257

Grotesquerie, 92, 114, 121, 192, 196, 270

Guardini, Romano, 89.

Guizac, Mr. ("The Displaced Person"), 116, 214, 287

Habit of Being: Letters, the (O'Connor), 82

Ham, Sarah ("The Comforts of Home"), 241

Hawkes, John, 5, 23, 94, 99, 113

on Flannery O'Connor, 194

Hawks, Asa (Wise Blood), 273

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 5, 268

Hayes, John, xi, 331

Head, Mr. ("The Artificial Nigger"), 235, 256, 285

Hebraic narrative style, 7

Heidegger, Martin, 171

Hendin, Josephine, 85, 90, 95

Hendricks, T. W., viii, 332

Herberg, Will, 51

Hester, Betty, 5, 7, 36, 61, 66, 74, 101, 155, 191

Hewitt, Avis, x, 98, 331

Hicks, Granville, 81

Holt Rinehart, 20

Homeric narrative style, 7

Hopewell, Hulga ("Good Country People")

and arrogance, 219

and humor, 182, 184

name, 146, 156, 173

and nihilism, 157

Hopewell, Mrs. ("Good Country People"), 157, 182

and arrogance, 218

Howe, Irving, 80

Humor, 175, 193, 197, 208

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 85

James, Henry, 227

James, William, 12

Jansenism, 73

Job, 36

Jordan, Michael, 59

Jordan, Rene, 94

"Judgement Day" (O'Connor), 50, 251

Julian ("Everything That Rises Must Converge"), 217, 231

Julian's mother ("Everything That Rises Must Converge"), 217, 224, 230

Karamazov, Ivan (The Brothers Karamazov), 38, 163

Kass, Leon, 72

Kierkegaard, Søren, 70

Kilcourse, Father George, 89

King Lear (Shakespeare), 264

Kinney, Arthur F., viii, 332

Kinsella, W. P., 101

Lacan, Jacques, 102

Lake, Christina Bieber, xiii, 89, 192, 333

"Lame Shall Enter First, The" (O'Connor), 50, 117, 241

and rejection, 246

Late Encounter with the Enemy, A" (O'Connor), 286

Lawson, Lewis A., 271

Lewis, C. S., 12, 290

Lienard-Yeterian, Marie, xiii, 333

"Life You Save May Be Your Own, The" (O'Connor), 118, 224

"Living With a Peacock" (O'Connor), 18

Lodge, David, 63

Lourdes, 21, 190.

Love, 258, 303

Love Declared (de Rougemont), 69

Love in the Western World (de Rougemont), 69

Lowell, Robert, 20

Lukács, Georg, 11

Lupus, 17, 21, 66, 125

Lynch, Father John, 17, 86

Lynch, William F., 89, 193

Macauley, Robie, 5

McIntyre, Mrs. ("The Displaced Person"), 116, 214, 221, 287

McMullen, Joanne, 207

Mailer, Norman, 64

Malebranche, Nicolas, 166

Malin, Irving, 92, 271

Man and Superman (Shaw), 164, 170

Manners, 141, 229

Maritain, Jacques, 169, 292, 294

Martin, Carter, 85

Martin, Karl, 128

Mary Grace ("Revelation"), 248

Masculinity, 211, 214, 244

Materialism, 128

May, Charles E., 329, 331

May, John R., 88

May, Mrs. ("Greenleaf"), 38, 220, 222

goring, 118

and social class, 233

May, Scofield ("Greenleaf"), 233

May, Wesley ("Greenleaf"), 235

Mellard, James, 102

Memoir of Mary Ann, A (Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Free Cancer Home), 37, 69

Merton, Thomas, 96

Misfit ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find"), 283

and evil, 145

and humor, 187

name, 146

as a prophet, 128, 137

and sin, 134

Modesty, 164-165

Montgomery, Marion, 89

Morton, Mary L., 211

Moses, 34

Motes, Hazel (Wise Blood), 50, 268

critical reception, 78

loss of faith, 119

rejection of Christ, 271

and religion, 56

self-blinding, 118

Mothers and motherhood, 229

in "A Circle in the Fire," 213

in "The Comforts of Home," 241, 245

in "The Enduring Chill," 239

in "Good Country People," 161, 182

in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," 129

in "Greenleaf," 220, 222

in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," 224

in "Revelation," 248

in "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," 209

Muller, Gilbert H., 93

Munro, Alice, 101

Murray, Lorraine, 63

Mystery and Manners (O'Connor), 29, 60, 81.

Napier, James, 257.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613665812

9781280688874

1280688874

9781587658846

1587658844

OCLC:

763236215