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The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)
The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor - Critical Responses in Arts and Letters Author:Douglas Robillard As the author of such classic American short stories as "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," and "Revelation," Flannery O'Connor has always been recognized as a distinctive voice in American literature. A devoutly Catholic, Southern author with serious literary ambitions, she dealt with topics such as the operatio... more »n of grace in ordinary life, and the nature of evil, sin, and redemption. Fifty years after the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, her fiction is acclaimed for its high literary value and with the publication of her Collected Works, her work has become part of the canon of American literature. This volume includes articles on the racial, critical, and theological controversies surrounding O'Connor's work. And, rather than presenting a consensus of literary opinion, it shows how different critics arrive at radically different interpretations of a given O'Connor story or novel.« less