Why should you read Flannery OConnor? - Iseult Gillespie
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Mike
. though she was a devout Catholic! How about BECAUSE she was a devout Catholic? The center of her life was her faith. All of her stories are God-haunted. She would read Aquinas before going to bed at night and called herself a hillbilly-Thomist. She called the Incarnation and the Resurrection the true laws of the physical. If you understand this, or at least keep it in mind, you can better understand her work.
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. though she was a devout Catholic! How about BECAUSE she was a devout Catholic? The center of her life was her faith. All of her stories are God-haunted. She would read Aquinas before going to bed at night and called herself a hillbilly-Thomist. She called the Incarnation and the Resurrection the true laws of the physical. If you understand this, or at least keep it in mind, you can better understand her work.
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Tim
Flannery O'Connor is astonishing. She is a female short story writer who understands how a mother's cloying influence can - time and again - inhibit her son and turn him against her. This is only one of O'Connor's many insights. I prize her stories over those of (obvious admirer) Raymond Carver. O'Connor's stories have greater humor and dramatic impact.
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Flannery O'Connor is astonishing. She is a female short story writer who understands how a mother's cloying influence can - time and again - inhibit her son and turn him against her. This is only one of O'Connor's many insights. I prize her stories over those of (obvious admirer) Raymond Carver. O'Connor's stories have greater humor and dramatic impact.
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Michael
She was the most prolific writer, her stories were always contradictions contrasting with contradictions that somehow worked out to be a great story. I love her writing style the way she set the tone right from the start. her villains sometimes end up heroes and her writing always leaves you captivated to read every detail
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She was the most prolific writer, her stories were always contradictions contrasting with contradictions that somehow worked out to be a great story. I love her writing style the way she set the tone right from the start. her villains sometimes end up heroes and her writing always leaves you captivated to read every detail
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Blake
Though she was a devout Catholic, she wasn't afraid to explore the possibility of pious thought and impious behavior co-existing in the same person.
I think you mean Because, not Though. Who better than a thoughtful Christian understands the human soul as a locus of moral and existential struggle and contradiction?
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Though she was a devout Catholic, she wasn't afraid to explore the possibility of pious thought and impious behavior co-existing in the same person.
I think you mean Because, not Though. Who better than a thoughtful Christian understands the human soul as a locus of moral and existential struggle and contradiction?
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Elizabeth
I had to write an essay of her and I enjoyed writing it. It was the about how grace is represented in 3 stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Life You Save Could Be Your Own, and Revelation. Great stores.
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I had to write an essay of her and I enjoyed writing it. It was the about how grace is represented in 3 stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Life You Save Could Be Your Own, and Revelation. Great stores.
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Elena
These videos are my favourite! Please, make one about Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, and also about Emily Dickinson's poetry. Don't stop making these videos please! I need more book recommendations!
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These videos are my favourite! Please, make one about Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, and also about Emily Dickinson's poetry. Don't stop making these videos please! I need more book recommendations!
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acatinny
Thanks for reminding me of this great writer! She was one of my favorites from my young days. I liked her darkness, harshness and loneliness. This should give me more motivation to write; )
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Thanks for reminding me of this great writer! She was one of my favorites from my young days. I liked her darkness, harshness and loneliness. This should give me more motivation to write; )
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Gonzalo
3: 23min That is very interesting: devout catholic, but the fantasy scenarios are Kant avec Sade style. Mastery over the grotesque. Very Paulish of her. I will certainly take a look.
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3: 23min That is very interesting: devout catholic, but the fantasy scenarios are Kant avec Sade style. Mastery over the grotesque. Very Paulish of her. I will certainly take a look.
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JsutinAE
I'm so glad I found this video! My lone tattoo is a peacock feather in dedication to Flannery O'Connor, her writing inspired me to be the writer I wanted to sound like.
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I'm so glad I found this video! My lone tattoo is a peacock feather in dedication to Flannery O'Connor, her writing inspired me to be the writer I wanted to sound like.
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Jack
Can we get a Why should you read Ursula K. LeGuin? You've used her quotes in at least one of your videos, so I know you like her!
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Can we get a Why should you read Ursula K. LeGuin? You've used her quotes in at least one of your videos, so I know you like her!
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