The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor | Resources

The Violent Bear It Away For Further Reading

Bloom, Harold, ed., Flannery O'Connor, Chelsea House Publications, 1999.

This volume gathers together some of the best criticism on O'Connor's work, including The Violent Bear It Away, and also features a short biography on the author, a chronology of her life, and an introductory essay by Bloom.

Magee, Rosemary, Conversations with Flannery O'Connor, University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

The interviews with O'Connor in this collection were conducted over the span of her writing career.

Martin, Carter, The True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.

This is a study aimed at students that concentrates on the religious themes in O'Connor's fiction.

McMullen, Joanne, Writing against God: Language as Message in the Literature of Flannery O'Connor, Mercer University Press, 1996.

Religious symbols and images in O'Connor's fiction are analyzed in depth in...
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