A selective bibliography of open access articles on 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 Authors of Web Pages
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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,' in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996
Bolton, Betsy. Placing violence, embodying grace: Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1997
Carano, Maria Andraca. "Southern Cross: freaks and other Christians in Flannery O'Connor's stories," Weekly Standard, Jan 3, 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, Wntr, 1996.
Fike, Matthew. The Timothy Allusion in "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", Renascence, 7/1/00
Grund, Gary R. "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Flannery O'Connor. - book reviews. Studies in Short Fiction, 1/1/95
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, Wntr, 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
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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 (removed)
A Teacher's Guide to Flannery O'Connor, from textbook publisher Heath
Introductory article on Flannery O'Connor, "The Dark Side of the Cross: Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction," by graduate student Patrick Galloway
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