Critical Essays on Flannery O'Connor (Critical Essays on American Literature) [Hardcover]

Melvin J. Friedman (Author), Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor)

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• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: G K Hall (July 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816186936
• ISBN-13: 978-0816186938
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 4.6 x 1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compilation of essays on Flannery O'Connor's fiction..., August 1, 2008

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This review is from: Critical Essays on Flannery O'Connor (Critical Essays on American Literature) (Hardcover)

Friedman and Clark include twenty-eight reviews and critical essays related to Flannery O'Connor's life and work, all reprints except for selections by Irving Malin and Janet Egleson Dunleavy.

Selections are arranged into three sections: the first, offering twelve reviews dealing with O'Connor's two novels, and her collections of short stories and essays; the second, provides "tributes and reminiscences"; and, the third, includes "a chronological record of the critical response to the writing ..."

Contents of the volume include:

Asals, Frederick. "[The Limits of Explanation]," Rpt. from "Flannery Row," Novel 4.1 (1970).

Bleikasten, Andre. "The Heresy of Flannery O'Connor," Rpt. from Les Americanistes by Ira D. and Christiane Johnson. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.

Burns, Marian. "O'Connor's Unfinished Novel," Rpt. from Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 11 (1982).

Clark, Beverly Lyon and Caroline M. Brown "A Review of O'Connor Criticism."

Coffey, Warren. "Flannery O'Connor," Rpt. from Commentary 8 (Nov. 1965).

Duhamel, P. Albert. "Flannery O'Connor's Violent View of Reality," Rpt. from Catholic World 190.1139 (Feb. 1960).

Dunleavy, Janet Egleson. "A Particular History: Black and White in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction."

Ferris, Sumner J. "The Outside and the Inside: Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away," Rpt. from Critique 3.2 (1960).

Friedman, Melvin. "Flannery O'Connor: The Canon Completed, the Commentary Continuing," Rpt. from Southern Literary Journal 5.2 (1973).

Friedman, Melvin J. "Flannery O'Connor in France: An Interim Report," Rpt. from Revue des Langues Vivantes 43 (1977).

Gordon, Caroline. "With a Glitter of Evil," Rpt. from New York Times Book Review 12 June 1955.

Gresset, Michel. "The Audacity of Flannery O'Connor," Rpt. from La Nouvelle Revue Francaise 216 (Dec. 1970).

Hawkes, John. "Flannery O'Connor's Devil," Rpt. from Sewanee Review 70 (1962).

Kahane, Claire. "Flannery O'Connor's Rage of Vision," Rpt. from American Literature 46.1 (1974).

Kazin, Alfred. "Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories," Rpt. from New York Times Book Review, 28 Nov. 1971.

Malin, Irving. "Singular Visions: 'The Partridge Festival.'"

Maloff, Saul. "On Flannery O'Connor," Rpt. from Commonweal, 8 Aug. 1969.

Merton, Thomas. "Flannery O'Connor: A Prose Elegy," Rpt. from Raids on the Unspeakable. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1983.

Poirier, Richard. "If You Know Who You Are You Can Go Anywhere," Rpt. from New York Times Book Review, 30 May 1965.

Porter, Katherine Anne. "Gracious Greatness," Rpt. from Esprit 8 (1964).

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. "Two Ladies From the South," Rpt. from Sewanee Review 63 (1955).

Schleifer, Ronald. "Rural Gothic: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor."

Simons, John W. "A Case of Possession," Rpt. from Commonweal, 27 June 1952.

Sonnenfeld, Albert. "Flannery O'Connor: The Catholic Writer as Baptist," Rpt. from Contemporary Literature 13 (1972).

Stallings, Sylvia. "Young Writer with a Bizarre Tale to Tell," Rpt. from New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 18 May 1952.

Tate, Allen. "Platitudes and Protestants," Rpt. from Esprit 8 (1964).

Walker, Alice. "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor," Rpt. from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1983.

Warnke, Frank J. "A Vision Deep and Narrow," Rpt. from New Republic, 14 March 1960.

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