Teachers and students were invited to the lecture series "Literature and Culture in Cold War America" held at the ETRC this week on Tuesday - Thursday.
They were conducted by Dr. Daniel Belgrad, Humanities and American Studies Associate Professor, University of South Florida.
The three lecture titles were as follows: Tuesday, June 15 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM J.D. Salinger and American Childhood Wednesday, June 16 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic
I attended the lecture about Flannery O'Connor and Southern Gothic on Wednesday 16 June.
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the gothic novel, unique to American literature.
Southern Gothic is like its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South.
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