My lectures on Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Shakespeare and Sophocles all seem to track back to Lent these days.
Also posted in Baldwin (James), O'Connor (Flannery), Shakespeare (William), Sophocles | Tagged Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, James Baldwin, King Lear, Lent, Oedipus at Colonus, Sonny's Blues, Sophocles, Suffering, William Shakespeare | Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” works as a powerful Lenten meditation upon doubt and salvation.
Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People” may help us understand why America got taken in by the man getting sworn in as president today: Donald Trump conned people whenever he caught them feeling superior to him.
In which I reflect upon my students’ shock upon Donald Trump’s victory. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Flannery O’Connor’s “All That Rises Must Converge” figure into the discussion.
Also posted in Ellison (Ralph), O'Connor (Flannery) | Tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", ableism, coming of age stories, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, homophobia, Invisible Man, racism, Ralph Ellison, Sexism | “Artificial Nigger” can be read two ways–either as a story of sin and redemption or as a story of Whites finding unity by scapegoating Blacks. A definitive interpretation may depend on readers’ reactions.
Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a profound meditation on doubt and faith.
Flannery O’Connor couldn’t stand Ayn Rand. With good reason.
Flannery O’Connor, like George Herbert, found her Christian faith regularly challenged by deep despair.
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Also posted in Aeschylus, Dostoevsky (Fyodor), Euripides, Lawrence (D. H.), O'Connor (Flannery), Plath (Sylvia), Roth (Philip K.), Shakespeare (William), Shelton (Richard), Sophocles | Tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare | 
