Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Publisher's Preface Prologue Forward The Achievement of Flannery O'Connor A Tribute to Flannery O'Connor Short Story I. Contest II. Symposium III. The Regional Writer Final Comments I. The Violent Bear it Away, a Review II. Her Style The Generative Finite Mystery and Manners III. Scriptural Biblical Exegesis A Reading of Flannery O'Connor An Interpretation Index
SynopsisIn 1964 when J.J. Quinn, the moderator of University of Scranton's literary journal Esprit, learned of Flannery O'Connor's death, he solicited a wide range of distinguished literary figures for tributes to Flannery. Among the contributers were: Brother Antoninus, Saul Bellow, Cleanth Brooks, Walter Burghardt, Harold Gardiner, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, and Robert Penn Warren. The present volume is a reprint of the original Esprit tribute issue, modified only by light editing and a few recent essays., In 1964 when J.J. Quinn, the moderator of University of Scranton'sliteraryjournal "Esprit, "learned of Flannery O'Connor's death, he solicited a wide range of distinguished literary figures for tributes to Flannery. Among the contributers were: Brother Antoninus, Saul Bellow, Cleanth Brooks, Walter Burghardt, Harold Gardiner, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, and Robert Penn Warren. The present volume is a reprint of the original "Esprit" tributeissue, modified only by light editing and a few recent essays."