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A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; edited and with an introduction by Frederick Asals.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women writers (New Brunswick, N.J.)Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1993.Description: vi, 180 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813519764 (cloth)
  • 0813519772 (paper)
  • 9780813519760 (cloth)
  • 9780813519777 (paper)
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Contents:
Introduction / Frederick Asals -- Chronology -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Background to the story. On her own work ; Letters / Flannery O'Connor -- Critical essays. A good source is not so hard to find / J.O. Tate -- Reading the map in "A good man is hard to find" / Hallman B. Bryant -- Advertisements for grace : Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / W.S. Marks, III -- A dissenting opinion of Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / William S. Doxey -- Everything off balance : Protestant election in Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / Michael O. Bellamy -- Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" and G.K. Chesterton's Manalive / William J. Scheick -- A good man's predicament / Madison Jones -- "The meanest of them sparkled" : beauty and landscape in Flannery O'Connor's fiction / Carter Martin -- Cats, crime, and punishment : The Mikado's Pitti-Sing in "A good man is hard to find" / J. Peter Dyson -- Deconstructed meaning in ["A good man is hard to find"] / Mary Jane Schenck.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is 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, critical essays, and a bibliography. The critical essays span more than twenty years of commentary and suggest several approaches to the story--formalistic, thematic, deconstructionist-- all within the grasp of the undergraduate, while the introduction also points interested students toward still other resources. Useful for both beginning and advanced students, this casebook provides an in-depth introduction to one of America's most gifted modern writers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Frederick Asals -- Chronology -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Background to the story. On her own work ; Letters / Flannery O'Connor -- Critical essays. A good source is not so hard to find / J.O. Tate -- Reading the map in "A good man is hard to find" / Hallman B. Bryant -- Advertisements for grace : Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / W.S. Marks, III -- A dissenting opinion of Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / William S. Doxey -- Everything off balance : Protestant election in Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / Michael O. Bellamy -- Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" and G.K. Chesterton's Manalive / William J. Scheick -- A good man's predicament / Madison Jones -- "The meanest of them sparkled" : beauty and landscape in Flannery O'Connor's fiction / Carter Martin -- Cats, crime, and punishment : The Mikado's Pitti-Sing in "A good man is hard to find" / J. Peter Dyson -- Deconstructed meaning in ["A good man is hard to find"] / Mary Jane Schenck.

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