1 Mckee
Raymond Mckee
AML II 3041
“Flannery O’ Connor”
Works Cited
Bleikasten, Andre. “Beginnings and Endings in Flannery O’ Conner.” Mississippi
Quarterly: Journal of Southern Cultures 59 (2006): 177-86. The beginnings and endings to fictional short stories are often carefully constructed and crafted by the author to achieve maximum impact on the reader. Bleikasten's article focuses on the three main beginning and ending techniques related to short story writing, the diegetic, narrative, and textual, and to what extent they can be found in O'Connor's writing. By focusing on the structure of O'Connor's stories we can begin to assess what she is trying to say and how she is trying to say it.
Bosco, Mark. “Consenting to Love: Autobiographical Roots of Good Country People.” Southern Review 41 (2005): 283-95. This article discusses the fictional elements of O'Connor's Good Country People and how her development as an author closely parallels her personal and physical struggles throughout life. Upon analyzing the philosophical doctrine versus the spiritual doctrine, a current theme throughout the work of the author, it becomes evident that O'Connor was a complex woman who explored complicated themes. Life, death, and faith were not simply fictional devices used to make her stories interesting, O'Connor lived her life searching for the answers to the profound questions in life. Bosco's article looks into Good County People to find the connections between the author's life and the story.
Hendin, Josephine. The World of Flannery O’Connor. Indiana: Indiana University Press,
1970. This book explores the O'Connor canon through the lenses of regional, religious, and sociological commentary. O'Connor's place in the Southern Gothic literary genre is indisputable. Her ability to focus on themes related to her regional surroundings, her southern upbringing, and the people she knew lent her to write stories perceived as "grotesque." Hedin's book examines O'Connor as a significant addition to female writers and the effect her work had on American literature and to modern writers of all genders.
Simpson, Melissa. Flannery O’ Connor: a Biography. Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
2005. This book traces the life of Flannery O' Connor from her early life and loss of her father to disseminated lupus, to her southern upbringing, devotion to Roman Catholicism, literary success, and struggle with the incurable disease inherited through genetics. Simpson thoroughly examines each important aspect of O'Connor's short life and the effect her writings and lectures have had
on our society and culture.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Bleikasten, Andre. “Beginnings and Endings in Flannery O’ Conner.” Mississippi
Quarterly: Journal of Southern Cultures 59 (2006): 177-86.
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Bosco, Mark. “Consenting to Love: Autobiographical Roots of Good Country People.”
Southern Review 41 (2005): 283-289
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BOOKS:
Hendin, Josephine. The World of Flannery O’Connor. Indiana: Indiana University Press,
1970
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Simpson, Melissa. Flannery O’ Connor: a Biography. Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
2005
LINK: http://ucf.catalog.fcla.edu/cf.jsp?Ntt=CF001156464&Ntk=Number&Nty=1&N=29&I=0&V=D