"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. The
contributors are Michael O. Bellamy, Hallman B. Bryant, William S.
Doxey, J.Peter Dyson, Madison Jones, W.S. Marks, III, Carter
Martin, William J. Scheick, Mary Jane Schenck, and J.O.Tate.
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. A volume in
a new series, Women Writers: Text and Contexts, edited by Thomas L.
Erskine and Connie L. Richards. Series Board: Martha Banta, Barbara
Christian, and Paul Lauter.
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