Flannery O''Connor: The Obedient Imagination
Sarah Gordon
Even a writer like Flannery O''Connor, who in her prime writes boldly and confidently, clearly grappled in her formative years with questions of power and authority. This fact is evident in the stories in the master''s thesis, and these concerns continue to manifest themselves to some extent in later work as well. O'' Connor would doubtless have been chagrined to see her masters thesis stories included in the 1971 volume The Complete Stories. That thesis, The Geranium: A Collection of ...