I check this group for messages every day but it's been kind of dry lately. I've just re-read all 1200 plus pages of O'connor, The collected works, (1988)...
... good fiction because O'connor died at such and early age. ... I've always felt a special connection with her. One of the reasons is that I was born in...
... Lea, I worked my way through college as a student pastor in rural Alabama. I encountered many like those in O'connor's stories and, in some ways, I am...
... superficially. Some of the folks here become very profound about her writing. I enjoy her on another level. I can just picture her looking down on us with...
It's rather ironic that this list is so slow, since the unique fundamentalist strain of Roman Catholicism is making itself know very overtly in America. To...
Hello, I recently read N West's "Miss Lonelyhearts." I think FOC mentions it with approval in her letters. In theme and tone it reminds me a lot of FOC. "Miss...
That's funny, I also just read Nathanael West's "Miss Lonelyhearts." I concur with what you wrote. I think in a way, the character of Miss Lonelyhearts...
Great book, tons of grotesque imagery, and the religious implications are enough for a paper (I know from personal experience.) You're in for a treat if you...
I guess there is no way to get rid of the spammer that has struck. I suppose my last question became lost in the shuffle or no one was interested in answering...
I'm trying to locate the quote where Flannery states that a prolonged death from illness is a blessing and preferable to a quick death. I've quickly scanned...
Hello I am currently preparing a presentation on Flannery O'connor and need to know: on what crime did she base her story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"? Any...
Hello Johnny, the info you want is contained in an essay of Sally Fitzgeral's published in Image Mag issue 16 but not available on line. I've got a copy which...
Hello Steve, upon further research I have concluded that O'connor based her story not on one event but actually, upon several. She was an avid reader of the...
Hello, I am writing a paper about the grotesque parents and children in"A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Good Country People," "The life You Save May Be Your...
Not all O'Connor characters are freaks in the conventional use of that term. If you go here http://mediaspecialist.org/on.html (the Comforts of Home site)...
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Hi all, I'm working on a paper about the religious symbolism in Greenleaf and thought I was doing well until I talked with my professor. I wrote about how the...
I have to write a paper on the opening scene of "A View Of The Woods" (from "the week before" to "he had any respect for"),focusing on the disruption of the...
Hello Lindsay, Basically Greenleaf concerns the purpose of death. I doubt the bull is a Christ figure but the animal turns out to be the agent of death and as...
But ... she would have approved of you saying she "sucks"? Hmm... ... From: caiken4life To: flanneryoconnorfanpage@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December...
Perhaps if she dumbed the word down a bit, you know, maybe powder it with an antebellum pout-drawl...but, would she have approve of me saying powder? Now there...
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I respect your gumption for expressing yourself so bluntly in a fan forum. I rather suspect that O'Connor might...
I'm not trying to hang you out to dry Robin (I doubt I could) but I would like you to explain in more detail your statement, `I love her (O'Connor's) work...
Dear Robin, Do you really think that Ms O'Connor wrote with 'didactic religiosity'? While I think it is true that, as Sally Fitzgerald noted, many people,...
Steve, I don't think it is so much in the intellectual department that Wooday Allen falls behind Flannery (though I'm not disputing that, either). For my...
Touche Paul, 'If Woody Allen had been Catholic...' sounds like the beginning of a very bawdy limerick eh? Steve ... __________________________________ Do you...
Robin, aren't we all didactic? Don't we all operate via some self imposed (received or accepted anyway/somehow) dogma? Didactic, dogmatic, doctrinal: aren't...
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