"The letter in his hand was an invitation, a plea, a cry from the heart."
Collegium Institute and Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith present this summer’s online Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Flannery O’Connor’s unfinished novel Why Do the Heathen Rage? In a daring act of criticism and literary archaeology, Jessica Hooten Wilson has spent the last decade compiling and analyzing O’Connor’s last, unfinished, unpublished novel and bringing it to print sixty years after the author’s untimely demise. This seminar will bring experts and enthusiasts together to reflect on O’Connor’s place in Catholic literature, and assess whether this incomplete novel adds to or detracts from her legacy. Does this novel deserve to stand among her great literary achievements in Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away? How should we read posthumously published works? Would O’Connor herself have wanted this draft to see the light of day? Can this mangled draft with an abrupt end, like the corpse of a bloody, bullet-ridden grandmother on the side of the road, shed light on the dark mysteries of grace?
Join Collegium Institute for our summer Global Catholic Literature Series on Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Schedule:
We will meet on four Mondays in June, from 7-8:30pm:
June 3 (Presentation by Jessica Hooten Wilson, editor of Why Do the Heathen Rage?)
June 10 (Facilitated by Katy Carl, editor of Dappled Things and author of As Earth Without Water)
June 17 (Facilitated by Bill Gonch, Assistant Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University)
June 24
Registration:
Early Bird Registration: $65 through May 15
Regular Registration: $75 through May 24
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