Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Flannery O'Connor, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages

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literary criticism

Askin, Denise T. "Anagogical Vision and Comedic Form In Flannery O'Connor: The Reasonable Use Of The Unreasonable," Renascence, Fall 2004

Bandy, Stephen C. "'One of my babies': the misfit and the grandmother in Flannery O'Connor's short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996

Bolton, Betsy. Placing violence, embodying grace: Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person." Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1997

Carano, Maria Andraca. "Southern Cross: freaks and other Christians in Flannery O'Connor's stories," Weekly Standard, 3 Jan. 2005

Dessommes, Nancy Bishop. "O'Connor's Mrs. May and Oates's Connie: an unlikely pair of religious initiates," Contends that Connie in Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" shares many traits with Flannery O'Connor's Mrs. May, the selfish widow in her short story "Greenleaf." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1994

Farmer, Joy A. "Mary Hood and the speed of grace: catching up with Flannery O'Connor." Author notes that "In tracing the genealogy of Southern writers, reviewers often connect Mary Hood with Flannery O'Connor." Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1996.

Fike, Matthew. The Timothy Allusion in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", Renascence, 2000

Grund, Gary R. "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Flannery O'Connor. Studies in Short Fiction, 1995

Hardy, Donald E. and David Durian. "The Stylistics of Syntactic Complements: Grammar and Seeing in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction," Style, Spring, 2000

Jordan, Michael M. "Flannery O'Connor's writing: a guide for the perplexed." On Flannery O'Connor's enduring appeal among readers, teachers, and critics. Modern Age, Wntr, 2005

McGill, Robert James. An introduction to Flannery O'Connor from the Literary Encyclopedia

O'Gorman, Farrell. "The angelic artist in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy." Renascence, Fall 2000

Owens, Mitchell. The function of signature in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." - short story by Flannery O'Connor, in Studies in Short Fiction, Winter, 1996

Paige, Linda Rohrer. "White trash, low class, and no class at all: Perverse portraits of phallic power in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1997

A Teacher's Guide to Flannery O'Connor, from textbook publisher Heath

(removed) Gautreaux, Tim. On what is means to be a Southern author, Atlantic Monthly, March 14, 1997

(removed) Schwartz, Benjamin. On the wish of readers to understand the American South and of writers to explain it - book reviews. Atlantic Monthly, December 1997

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