Video: Flannery O’Connor roundtable: “Shadows of the Word: Songwriters and Literary Legacies of Religion and Place”

Watch a Feb. 20 roundtable discussion featuring Mary Gauthier, Minton Sparks, Linford Detweiler and Karin Berquist of Over the Rhine, and Julie Lee.

The musicians discuss “Shadows of the Word: Songwriters and Literary Legacies of Religion and Place.”

The literature of Flannery O’Connor, especially the theology that informs it, was examined during a series sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

O’Connor (1925-1964), one of America’s greatest fiction writers, was a staunch Roman Catholic and many of her stories focused on fundamentalist Protestants. She wrote the novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away and short story collections including Everything That Rises Must Converge. She won the National Book Award posthumously for The Complete Stories.

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Media contact: Jim Patterson (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu

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