CRITICISM

Burke, William. “Fetishism in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 22 (1993-94): 45-52.

Examines the fetishistic characters in O'Connor's fiction.

Cash, Jean W. “O'Connor on ‘Revelation’: The Story of a Story.” English Language Notes 24, no. 3 (March 1987): 61-7.

Traces the origins and writing of O'Connor's “Revelation.”

Crocker, Michael W., and Robert C. Evans. “Faulkner's ‘Barn Burning’ and O'Connor's ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’.” CLA Journal 36, no. 4 (June 1993): 371-83.

Finds parallels between “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and William Faulkner's “The Barn Burning.”

Farley, Blanche. “Echoes of Poe, In Sawmill and Loft.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin14 (1985): 14-23.

Notes similarities in the humor of O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe.

Gray, Jeffrey. “‘It's Not Natural’: Freud's ‘Uncanny’ and O'Connor's Wise Blood.” Southern Literary Journal 24, no. 2 (fall 1996): 56-68.

Provides a Freudian reading of O'Connor's Wise Blood.

Haddox, Thomas F. “Contextualizing Flannery O'Connor: Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and the Catholic Turn in Southern Literature.” Southern Quarterly 38, no. 1 (fall 1999): 173-90.

Discusses O'Connor as a Catholic writer in light of Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon's conception of Southern literature.

Hannon, Jane. “The Wide World Her Parish: O'Connor's All-Embracing Vision of Church.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 24 (1995-96): 1-21.

Elucidates O'Connor's Catholic perspective.

Hardy, Donald E., and Chris Newton. “Why is She So Negative? Negation and Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 17, no. 2 (December 1998): 61-79.

Examines the analytic negation in O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

Johnson, Rob. “‘The Topical Is Poison’: Flannery O'Connor's Vision of Social Reality in ‘The Partridge Festival’ and ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 21 (1992): 1-24.

Considers O'Connor's mix of “the topical and the timeless” in her “The Partridge Festival” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”

Ludwin, Deanna. “O'Connor's Inferno: Return to the Dark Wood.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 17 (1988): 11-39.

Investigates the relationship between “The Artificial Nigger” and Dante's The Divine Comedy.

May, John R. “The Methodological Limits of Flannery O'Connor's Critics.” Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 15 (1986): 16-28.

Surveys the critical reaction to the relationship between art and religion in O'Connor's work.

Mayer, David. “‘Like Getting Ticks Off a Dog’: Flannery O'Connor's ‘As if’.” Christianity and Literature 33, no. 4 (summer 1984): 17-34.

Discusses O'Connor's use of the as-if construction in her fiction.

Meek, Kristen. “Flannery O'Connor's ‘Greenleaf’ and the Holy Hunt of the Unicorn.” The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 19 (1990): 30-7.

Notes the mythological elements in O'Connor's “Greenleaf.”

Mellard, James M. “Flannery O'Connor's Others: Freud, Lacan, and the Unconscious.” American Literature 61, no. 4 (December 1989): 625-43.

Provides a Lacanian and Freudian perspective on O'Connor's fiction.

O'Gorman, Farrell. “The Angelic Artist in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy.” Renascence 43, no. 1 (fall 2000): 61-79.

Examines O'Connor's and Percy's links to the post-WWII Catholic intellectual milieu.

Redmon, Anne. “Figures for Our Displacement: An Informal Discussion of the Works of Flannery O'Connor.” In The Origins and Originality of American Culture, by Tibor Frank, pp. 219-29. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1984.

Discusses O'Connor as a Southern writer.

Roos, John. “Flannery O'Connor and the Limits of Justice.” In Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens: Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics, edited by Joseph M. Knippenberg and Peter Augustine Lawler, pp. 143-67. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996.

Explores the relationship between justice and politics in O'Connor's fiction.

Shaw, Mary Neff. “Responses to God's Grace: Varying Degrees of Doubt in Flannery O'Connor's Character Types.” CLA Journal 44, no. 4 (June 2001): 471-79.

Offers Michael Polanyi's perspective “to illuminate the veracity of O'Connor's Christian appeal by demonstrating how selected character types in O'Connor's fiction exemplify categories of doubt which Polanyi identifies as humankind's various responses to God's grace.”

Spivey, Ted R. “The Complex Gifts of Flannery O'Connor.” Essays in Arts and Sciences 14 (May 1985): 49-58.

Surveys the defining characteristics of O'Connor's fiction.

Tuttle, Jon. “Glimpses of ‘A Good Man’ in Capote's In Cold Blood.” ANQ 1, no. 4 (October 1988): 144-46.

Detects the influence of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

Wray, Virginia F. “‘An Afternoon in the Woods': Flannery O'Connor's Discovery of Theme.’” The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 20 (1991): 45-53.

Traces the origins and revisions of O'Connor's “An Afternoon in the Woods.”

Additional coverage of O'Connor's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 7; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography and Resources, Vol. 3; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1941-1968; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 3, 41; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 13, 15, 21, 66, 104; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 152; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 12; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1980; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Exploring Short Stories; Literature and Its Times; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Novels for Students, Vol. 3; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 2, 7, 10; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 1, 23; Twayne's United States Authors; and World Literature Criticism.