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U of Illinois P, U of Georgia P, U of South Carolina P, Computational Technique and Linguistic Voice. Thomas, and the Limits of Art, Volume 2.
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: Misfits and Marble Fauns: Religion and Romance in Hawthorne and O'Connor. UP of Virginia, Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic. Between the House and the Chicken Yard: The Masks of Flannery O'Connor. Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference.
Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art. U of Notre Dame P, U of Missouri P, A Student Project by Sabra Stafford. On the other hand many read her stories angered or highly amused by the folly of groups other than their own, never recognizing she also is hammering them.
Should she have been more transparent in her beliefs?
Did she feel like C. And, if so, is that fair?
Or was obscurity necessary to get such material published? She was not vengeful. She did not indulge a temper.
She did not abuse. She was in fact frail and chronically disabled. March 3, ; The Habit of Being: Lewis , edited by W. Raised in the balmy south she would forever think of Iowa City as a sooty tubercular place. Always the sunny writing talent before Iowa she had been stunned there by what she did not know, what she had not read. The other graduate students seemed of another civilization. She did not know Kafka or Joyce. She did not even know William Faulkner.
She may have had a degree from a southern college but here it seemed worth nothing. She also learned women were seldom included in the workshop. So with considerable fear she entered the office of Paul Engle, distinguished poet and director of the writing program, for an interview. He was a husky man of about 40 with a smiley leprechaun face but Flannery was still uneasy as she sat down.
He blinked and stared at her uncomprehending.
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What had she said? No smile now, just enormous discomfort. He took a deep breath. He looked like a man suppressing a vast squirm. Yes, he had actually asked her to write that down. It was just a bit insane, right out of her favorite, Edgar Allen Poe. She wanted to laugh. She wanted to scream. But she must not do either. So she wrote it down.
Her great opportunity had come and had crushed her. Good Lord, would her writing be as indecipherable to these northern minds as her speech? The Complete Stories , In December Flannery was hospitalized for what she believed was rheumatoid arthritis. Her treatments were injections of cortisone. To suppress the immune system would arrest lupus but make Flannery vulnerable to other diseases.
Symptoms were arthritic pain, fever and fatigue. All this was happening as Flannery tried to finish her first novel Wise Blood. For that summer she learned the true nature of her illness. Her type of lupus was a death sentence; the same one given to her father who died of lupus at Never betraying a trace of self-pity in any of her letters she accepted her affliction and often in great pain or deadening fatigue continued to write her fiction.
Yet another said two transfusions had enabled her to work but her tongue was hanging on the typewriter keys. This light vein in her letters about what was really an excruciating illness continued for 12 years. The Habit of Being: HC PB for hardcover for paperback.