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Realist of Distances: Flannery O Connor Revisited

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Westarp and Gretlund offer "critical essays celebrating Flannery O'Connor's unique vision of the convergence of the temporal and the eternal." Notes that while some essays "point out that her fiction is grounded in the particularities of the South and her awareness of her immediate world," others focus on her "literary integrity and offer an evaluation of her literary impact."

All treat O'Connor as "the prophetic poet, the realist of distances, who tried to recall us to our largely forgotten relation to the world and each other." Remarks that the essays were all originally presented at a symposium held during August 1984 at Anderborg, Denmark.

In addition to Sally Fitzgerld's "Degrees and Kinds: Introduction," the volume's essays are grouped into five sections:

Section I: Developing Artist:

Brown, Ashley. "Flannery O'Connor: A Literary Memoir."

Drake, Robert. "'The Lady Frum Somewhere': Flannery O'Connor Then and Now."

Westarp, Karl-Heinz. "Flannery O'Connor's Development: An Analysis of the 'Judgement Day' Material."

Schlafer, Linda. "Pilgrims of the Absolute: Leon Bloy and Flannery O'Connor."

Section II: Narrator:

Feeley, Kathleen. "'Mine is a Comic Art . . .': Flannery O'Connor."

Ashley, Jack Dillard. "Throwing the Big Book: The Narrator's Voice in Flannery O'Connor's Stories."

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Narration and the Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's Stories."

Section III: Image Maker:

Currie, Sheldon. "Comic Imagery in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor."

Blasingham, Mary V. "Archetypes of the Child and of Childhood in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor."

Garson, Helen S. "Cold Comfort: Parents and Children in the Work of Flannery O'Connor."

Washburn, Delores. "The 'Feeder' Motif in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: A Gauge of Spiritual Efficacy."

Section IV: Aesthete:

Beck, Christiane "Flannery O'Connor's Poetics of Space."

Martin, Carter. "'The Meanest of Them Sparkled': Beauty and Landscape in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction."

Muzina, Matej. "Inescapable Lucidity: Flannery O'Connor's Gift and Most Terrible Affliction."

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. "From the State to the Strait of Georgia: Aspects of the Response by Some of Flannery O'Connor's Creative Readers."

Section V: Thinker and Believer:

Ireland, Patrick J. "The Sacred and the Profane: Redefining Flannery O'Connor's Vision."

Gretlund, Jan Nordby. "The Side of the Road: Flannery O'Connor's Social Sensibility."

Ebrecht, Ann. "'The Length, Breadth, and Depth of the World in Movement': The Evolutionary Vision of Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin."

Mott, Sara. "Flannery O'Connor's Unique Contribution to Christian Literary Naturalism."

Montgomery, Marion. "Flannery O'Connor: Realist of Distances."

R. Neil Scott / Middle Tennessee State University