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Comforts of Home focuses on Flannery O'Connor related information evaluated for its reliability and usefulness: links to biographical information about Flannery O'Connor, critical analysis of her work, and general praise of her abilities as a writer and a human being. If you're searching for essays and other scholarship on Flannery O'Connor published on the Web, we try to catch everything that we think is truly helpful. Be aware that most critical analysis of O'Connor is in hard-copy (see: Offline Resources).

News for July

If a man kills six people during a town festival because he's been alienated and tormented by his neighbors, is he evil or simply deranged? "Sin or Insanity" attempts to find the boundary between evil and mental illness through an analysis of the characters in "The Partridge Festival".

Sometimes the violent end met by an O'Connor character shocks readers, leaving them to wonder why tragedy permeates her fiction. In his essay "Light and Shadow", David Allen Cook uses O'Connor's short stories "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Lame Shall Enter First" to show that violence is simply the admission price religious pretenders must pay to discover Truth.

Can the things we make with our hands really bring us any closer to God? Do spires and crosses open the gates to heaven, or are they just golden calves? But then, maybe God can speak from something as earthly as a burning tractor. Consider how a simple tattoo takes on a whole world of meaning in "The Ultimate Heresy: the Heartless God in 'Parker's Back'".

If Flannery O'Connor had a blog it might look something like what TS has put together in this congregation of quotes and links addressing everything from faith to folly.

Thanks to the efforts of the Flannery O'Connor-Adalusia Foundation anyone can now visit Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor spent much of her adult life and wrote most of her stories.

Educators take note of this online resource. While it contains an immense amount of helpful information about American literature, our interest in the electronic resources of the Heath Anthology of American Literature lies in their Instructor's Guide to building a course or unit on Flannery O'Connor. This well thought out guide covers classroom strategies, discussion questions, major themes, and a concise bibliography.

Biography: Who was Mary Flannery O'Connor?

Online Essays: Criticism of O'Connor's work on the Internet. Many of these are "scholarly," but there are several non-academic articles here as well, so be careful if you use them for a paper.

Offline Essays: A bibliography of print resources. Most of these are in journals, and as far as I know they are academic, not popular articles.

Books : Works by and about O'Connor available online or at your local bookstore.

(If you want to see everything Amazon offers on O'Connor, you can test drive this new connection I'm working on that automatically searches for anything tagged Flannery O'Connor.)

Other Sites: The requisite "links" page. Don't waste your time searching for O'Connor sites on the net, just click here.

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