Dec 21, 2009

The Lame Shall Enter First | Bibliography

Brewer, Nadine. 1985. “Christ, Satan, and Southern Protestantism in O’Connor’s Fiction.” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 14:103-11. Brewer argues that Rufus Johnson symbolizes both Christ and Satan, for he reveals the way to Christ and, rather than deny him, promotes him.

Garson, Helen S. 1987. “Cold Comforts: Parents and Children in the Work of Flannery O’Connor.” In Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, eds. Karl-Heinz Westarps and Jan Nordby, 113-22. Gretlund, Denmark: Aarhus University Press. Garson explores themes of childhood and parenting...