Hailed by critics as one of the more con-troversial of contemporary American authors, Flannery O'Connor has been de-scribed as the most extreme Christian dualist since Dostoevsky. In this first full-length study of O'Connor's work, Brown-ing explores the implications of O'Con-nor's situation as a Roman Catholic in the South in the 1950s. From this point of departure Browning offers a detailed analysis of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Vio-lent Bear It Away, and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Touching upon writings about intensely religious acts and dilemmas, this look at a...

Description: ""To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures."" --Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners Drowning in a river, the violent murder of a grandmother in the backwoods of Georgia, and the trans-genital display of a freak at a carnival show are all shocking literary devices used by Flannery O'Connnor, one of American literature's best pulp fiction writers. More than thirty-five years after her death, readers are still shocked by O'Connor's grotesque images. Dr. Jill Baumgaertner concentrates on O'Connor's use of emblems, those...