Watch video of Flannery O’Connor scholar Michael Kreyling, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, speaking Feb. 2 on “Take Heed, Watch: The Meaning of the O’Connor Story Comes Like a Thief.”
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.
Watch the roundtable discussion of “Shadows of the Word: Songwriters and Literary Legacies of Religion and Place.”
Watch “Victor Judge: The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor.”
Media contact: Jim Patterson (615) 322-NEWS
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