A1. Flannery O'Connor & the Haunted South

This course will look at Flannery O’Connor’s life in context through a biographical sketch and especially in her works.  We will read one novel and two short stories.  Flannery is arguably one of the greatest American writers, especially in the genre of the short story. She was deeply religious, remarkably witty, and brilliant. Writing in the Southern Gothic tradition, she opens a surprising and transcendent world to us through violence, the grotesque, and the outsider.

INSTRUCTOR:  Tim Burger lives in Worcester. He studied at the University of GA (Literature and Philosophy), The General Seminary, NYC (Divinity), Union Seminary, NYC (Religion and Literature) and is currently working on his MFA at Sewanee, The University of the South. He has a love of southern writers including Flannery O’Connor.

REQUIRED BOOKS: Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood, Macmillan: FSG Classics. ISBN: 978-0374530631. Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Short Stories, Macmillan: FSG Classics. ISBN: 978-0374515362.