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focuses on Flannery O'Connor related information evaluated for its reliability and
usefulness: links to biographical information about Flannery O'Connor, critical
analysis of her work, and general praise of her abilities as a writer and a human
being. If you're searching for essays and other scholarship on Flannery O'Connor
published on the Web, we try to catch everything that we think is truly helpful.
Be aware that most critical analysis of O'Connor is in hard-copy.
News
for January
A request from a visitor looking for audio of O'Connor reading her own work led me to The Morning Oil, where I found WMA files of O'Connor reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and one of her lectures on aspects of the grotesque in Southern fiction. If you are on a device that won't play WMA format, try the MP3s at Black Market Kidneys.
Georgia artist Ande Cook recently finished a portrait of O'Connor and shares the process on her Chickory blog. It's interesting to watch her work progress from sketch to finished painting and see how Flannery still inspires people today.
Glenn C. Arbery's article "Ontological Splendor: Flannery O’Connor in the Protestant South"examines the reality of O'Connor's southern identity reflected in her fiction, particulalry "Good Country People".
In the National Catholic Reporter, Sr. Rose Pacatte considers O'Connor's relevance to today's audience with her article "Teaching a Chicken to Walk Backwards". The sly title should include a wink and a nod because, while she does mention O'Connor's talented chicken (which sparked a discussion here on Comforts a while ago), her article highlights the currents stirred up by O'Connor's fiction in popular culture including The Passion of the Christ and Lost. In the case of this article, the titular chicken is us.
PBS Religion and
Ethics Weekly contains a fantastic Flannery
O'Connor episode that includes interviews with Ralph Wood, Brad Gooch, Bruce
Gentry and people influenced by O'Connor's work.
Professor Amy Hungerford
teaches the OpenYale course on "The
American Novel Since 1945", and you may be particularly interested in her lectures
on Wise Blood. (Thanks to Joe Johnson for the tip.)
We've noticed a
rising interest in film adaptations of O'Connor's fiction, and while Hollywood hasn't
taken up the challenge recently (which might be a good thing), several
productions have already translated O'Connor's stories to the screen.
Thanks to the efforts
of the Flannery O'Connor-Adalusia
Foundation anyone can now visit Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor spent much
of her adult life and wrote most of her stories.
Educators
take note of this online resource. While it contains an
immense amount of helpful information about American literature, our interest in
the electronic resources of the Heath
Anthology of American Literature lies in their Instructor's
Guide to building a course or unit on Flannery O'Connor. This well thought out
guide covers classroom strategies, discussion questions, major themes, and a concise
bibliography.
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Biography:
Who was Mary Flannery O'Connor?
Online
Essays: Criticism of O'Connor's work on the Internet. Many of these are "scholarly,"
but there are several non-academic articles here as well, so be careful if you use
them for a paper.
Books
: Works by and about O'Connor available online or at your local bookstore.
(If you want
to see everything Amazon offers on O'Connor, you can use this connection that searches
anything tagged Flannery O'Connor.)
Other
Sites: The requisite "links" page. Don't waste your time searching for O'Connor
sites on the net, just click here.
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