Annotated Bibliography On Revelation By Flannery O Connor

“Revelation”: Annotated Bibliography
Growing up in the south people tend to lean on religion as a source for guidance. You are bound to get asked by someone “what church do you attend’? The south can pride itself on the Bible belt state with a more conservative side twist. Using the biographical strategy to analyze how Flannery O’Connor’s religious upbringings in the south influenced her writings with “Revelation” by influencing the character Mrs. Turpin to be a predigest religious extremist.

Kinney, Arthur F. “Flannery O'Connor and the Art of the Holy.” Critical Insights: Flannery O'Connor, 20 Jan. 2011.

Arthur Kinney’s article “Art of the Holy” speaks volumes to the way Flannery O’Connor religion plays. The article was published with the

Jacky Dumas is a Dr. at UMHB where he teaches English. While Jessica Wilson has written three novels, including “Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov “. Although, the publication year is 2013 the work is relevant to the time period. Dumas and Wilson argue that Mrs. Turpin was in a augmented reality. “"striking disclosure" of "Revelation" may well be that Ruby Turpin's reactions are possibly as close-minded as they are eye opening (Dumas and Wilson). Mrs. Turpin started off so closed off and stuck up but ended with a new sight. O’Connor never admitted to taking any inspiration from the Greeks but her writing have close interpersonal relations to theirs. In “Revelation” Mrs. Turpin relates to Plato they state, “Like Plato's chained beings in Allegory of the Cave, Mrs. Turpin has no source of reality when perception changes” (Dumas and Wilson). Her reality had altered after she was hit in the nose and told, “to go back to hell where you came from you old wart hog” (O’Connor389). It was if her world had suddenly changed and she no longer knew who she

Brinkmeyer is an English professor at the University of South Carolina. He has written two books “Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, Katherine Anne Porter's Artistic Development”. The article was written in 1986, the article closely relates to the Catholicism upbringing of O’Connor and how she was influenced to write on divine grace and how each character could possibly be saved or turned to love God. Brinkmeyer states “O'Connor shows no such reticence in most of her fiction, and in this lack of timidity she resembles many evangelical preachers” (Brinkmeyer). Mrs. Turpin shouted out racist things and thought of herself to be above all. After she got the book thrown at her and was ridiculed she had an