Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor

Name: Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
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ISBN: 9780813519777

ISBN-10: 0813519772

ISBN-13: 9780813519777

Edition: 1993

Authors: Frederick Asals, Frederick Asals, Nicole Solano

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A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction. This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of the story itself, comments and letters by O'Connor about the story,…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Asals is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.



Introduction



Chronology


A Good Man Is Hard to Find



Background to the Story


On Her Own Work



Letter to John Hawkes and Letter to a Professor of English



Critical Essays


A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find



Reading the Map in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"



Advertisements for Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"



A Dissenting Opinion of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"



Everything Off Balance: Protestant Election in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"



Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and G. K. Chesterton's Manalive



A Good Man's Predicament



"The Meanest of Them Sparkled": Beauty and Landscape in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction



Cats, Crime, and Punishment: The Mikado's Pitti-Sing in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"



Deconstructed Meaning in ["A Good Man Is Hard to Find"]



Selected Bibliography


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