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Close Reads

From the CiRCE Institute, Close Reads is a book-club podcast with Angelina Stanford, Tim McIntosh, and David Kern. We read Great Books and talk about them. Join us!
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Now displaying: April, 2017
Apr 25, 2017

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge,  with "Parker's Back".

Topics include:

  • The differences between "Parkers' Back" and her other work
  • The theatrical nature of the story
  • Parker's awe
  • The deeper meaning of the characters' actions
  • Reading Sarah Ruth
  • Parker's image (and its all-seeing eye)
  • Why O'Connor chose to use a Byzantine icon

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This episode is brought to by our friends at Roman Roads Media, purveyors of the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan. 

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Apr 17, 2017

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge,  with "Revelation."

Topics include:

  • Whether this is a good story to use to introduce stuents to O'Connor
  • The racism of characters in the story
  • Mrs. Turpin's gradual openness
  • Mrs. Turpin's Christ-haunted-ness
  • Seeing ourselves in Mrs. Turpin
  • Judging Mrs. Turpin
  • Mrs. Turpin's avenging angel of judgment
  • Mrs. Turpin's mystical vision

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This episode is brought to by our friends at Roman Roads Media, purveyors of the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan. 

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Apr 10, 2017

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge,  with "The Lame Shall Enter First."

Topics include: whether this story is less grotesque, the clinical-ness of the prose, psychology vs spiritual in the story, whether Shepherd repents, O'Connor vs the enlightenment, Norton as Shepherd's mirror, Norton's loneliness, faith like a child, and O'Connor the smuggler

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This episode is brought to by our friends at Roman Roads Media, purveyors of the Old Western Culture series, featuring Wes Callihan. 

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Apr 3, 2017

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge,  with "The Comforts of Home."

Topics include: the theatrical nature of O'Connor's work, this story vs. the others in this collection, whether the mother is right to take an interest in Sarah, common critical readings that emphasize sexual tension, the opening paragraphs, Thomas as pharisee, the absence of dark grace, and more. 

 

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