Readings on Flannery O'Connor

Foreword

Introduction

Flannery O'Connor : a biography

1. Introduction to Flannery O'Connor

First great modern writer from the South / Alice Walker ; O'Connor's challenge to her readers / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre ; Emblematic moments in O'Connor's fiction / Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner ; O'Connor's bleak view of human nature / Martha Stephens ; O'Connor's place in the literary tradition of the South / C. Hugh Holman ; Representations of race in O'Connor's work / Ralph C. Wood

2. O'Connor's predominant themes

Role of grace in O'Connor's fiction / Andre Bleikasten ; Violence in O'Connor's work / Josephine Hendin ; O'Connor's use of the grotesque / Carter W. Martin ; O'Connor questions the value of beauty / Edward Kessler

3. Critical selection

Psychology in Everything that rises must converge / Preston M. Browning Jr. ; Comic redemption in Revelation / Ralph C. Wood ; Critical study of A good man is hard to find / Miles Orvell ; Contrasting view of A good man is hard to find / Stephen C. Bandy ; Prophecy in The displaced person / Kathleen Feeley ; Parker's back : the transformation of an unbeliever / Richard Giannone.