Towards a reading of O'Connor

I'm going to post some links that might interest you, as we work toward interpretations of O'Connor's short stories. In no particular order:

the pastoral (a literary form that values the country over the city): http://www.bartleby.com/216/1312.html

Levittown (or the Suburbs) (bringing the country closer to the city): http://server1.fandm.edu/levittown/default.html

_Leave it to Beaver_:(1950s TV show that highlighted the white nuclear family living in suburbia): http://www.leaveittobeaver.org/

_Green Acres_(TV show about a city slicker who moves south to a farm): http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/

Flannery O'Connor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O'Connor

Southern gothic: http://web.uccs.edu/history/courses/hum399faulkmor/faulknergoth.htm
(Have any of your read Faulkner's "A Rose for Miss Emily"?)

The New Criticism (the form of literary theory that O'Connor studied, as did most of us): http://130.179.92.25/Arnason_DE/New_Criticism.html

Check out a few of these links and see if they don't help you get a grasp of the context in which O'Connor was writing in the 1950s.

aloha, sms