The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. ... (Baumgaertner, 24) Students may question how her writing, as bizarre and cruel as it is, would be deemed Christian literature. ... She was not fulfilled with the restrictions of solely rational content, and stated that she had the belief that her brand of literature "will always be pushing its own limits outward toward the limits of mystery." ... Flannery notes, "There is a moment in every great story in which the presence of grace can be felt as it waits to be ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to "A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature: Fourth Edition", the Historical-Biographical approach: "...sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of the author's life and times or the life and times of the characters in the work" (Guerin, 22). ... A week later, the major wrote her himself and asked her to send his car for her and she replied in an old-fashioned way, the speaker says " a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink" this indicates that Miss Grierson had not contact with the m...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature has a strange ability to force an individual to look introspectively at their own existence and to question their own qualities - to self-evaluate. ... He "weep[s] like a schoolgirl, writes large suicide notes, and destroy[s] the living room furniture." " Each selection had much to teach about writing and how an author can bring a reader around to accepting and understanding a sentiment that might be unfamiliar to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1660
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate