"A Good Man is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor

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. 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.

About the author

Frederick Asals teaches at New College, the University of Toronto. He is the author of Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity and of articles on O'Connor and other American writers.

Summary

Presents a chronology of the life of author Flannery O'Conner, comments and letters by the author about the story, and a series of ten critical essays by noted authors about her work

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor
• Assisted by: Frederick Asals (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780813519777
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-1977-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Series: Women Writers: Texts and Conte; Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies