Does anyone else feel that O'Connor uses existentialist thought to bring about the catharsis in her main characters? I have often wondered about "Christians"...
Hello L.P.FOC. O'Connor was no existentialist as I'm sure you realise but she wasn't afraid to mine existentialist thought to illuminate her stories. In fact...
Thank you for the book references. I am turning my senior project "Mystery in the Vision of What-Is: The Effect of Grace through Existentialism in Flannery...
This is a reply by a fan of FO'C who never had academic urgencies about her :-) I have the extreme pleasure to read her stories only because my best friends...
Ms McMullan in "Writing Against God" sounds very much like a scientist desperate to prove a hunch at any price. She must have closed her eyes to a tremendous...
Greetings from Milledgeville and the official home of the works of Flannery O'Connor. I have a documented paper due Tuesday 11:00 a.m. EDT on 'The Violent...
... et al. Is there any such thing for Flan? actually yes there is, at least here in milledgeville. to celebrate 'flannery o'connor' week the special...
... wrote: This town is a cesspool but I must admit that I am intrigued by her works as I read more of them...I for one do not blame her for writing while she...
Hello all, I have added a Photo Album to the Yahoo! group, with some pix of my pilgrimage (6 years ago) to Milledgeville. We billed it as the "No One With a...
Dear alexacain, As a fellow procrastinator, I wanted to give you a good (and easy!) topic to consider for your "Violent Bear" paper. The topic would be...
Maybe it's just the anger talking but I'm really pissed off right now. Seriously, the reason I just logged back onto the 'net after an hour or so of more...
You've really got my sympathy now. If you go to this site http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3966/ssfreaks.html Paragraph about no 18 has something interesting...
... could ... Hi anthornis, thanks for the site, I'll be checking it out shortly. I have just finished reading O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away." Let me...
Write a paper on The Violent Bear It Away and put it on the 'net. Any topic will do -- trust me on this. Earlier this morning I put the search term 'Violent...
Im writing an essay for my Lit class, and dont know where to find essays done by other people about her work. I am doing on the short story "An Afternoon in...
I don't know the answer on that one either but if I were in your shoes I would go to a good library and borrow "The Habit of Being" (O'Connor's letters)I know...
I wiah I could find some advice from FO'C on marriage. Oh, wait, she never got married. Maybe that is why she had so much BLISS! LOL! Catch you all later...
You're right there. She never married and yes from her letters she certainly seemed well adjusted and happy; and surprise surprise she did from time to time...
Stated in human terms, the plan is substantially this. That love which makes youth beautiful, and is the natural spring of so much song and romance, has for...
I was joking! Lol but thanks anyway for the wash in the waters of morality. I was just arguing with my husband and needed a laugh. Anyway, at least I got...
Okay, here's those two pieces I promised. I was going to renege but then quite by "accident" I stumbled over the hardest one to find so I thought I better get...
Hi!: My name is Chris. I'm a recent college graduate with a degree in English literaure and Linguistics. I became interested in O'Connor's short stories in...
wow i havent posted in here in a while :-p i had a discussion in one of my lit classes and people couldnt figure out how the title "everything that rises must...
I was thinking that when Julian's mother was looking for a nickel to give to the young boy but could only find a penny. The president on the nickel is Thomas...
My hat is off to you for thinking such deeply symbolic thoughts at this hour of the morning! The part with the nickel and the penny is clever, indeed. One has...
ah yes i am sort of an insomniac.. i rarely sleep but if i do.. i sleep in large doses such as the other day i slept through all of monday lol i havent slept...
Hey folks, I am planning a trip to Milledgeville sometime in June. I was wondering (especially for all of you who live in Milledgeville) is anything going on...
Well, well, well. Lucky you. Flannery O'Connor once described Milledgeville as a town of 8000 of whom 4000 were locked up. Apparently it was once home to the...
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