These ten essays, seven of which are previously unpublished, reflect the broadening of critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. The

It also, he maintains, allows readers to appreciate the mysteries O'Connor sought to underscore.".

Presents a brief biography of Flannery O'Connor, thematic and structural analysis of her works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

This is a reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. central struggle between spirit and matter in O'Connor through a

This volume draws on the author's six-year correspondence with Flannery O'Connor in this evaluation of the Southern writer as an intellectual and as a student o