Southerners don't hide their skeletons in closets; they invite them into the living room to entertain at tea. This course focuses on works which examine what Flannery O'Connor defined as the Southern grotesque-individuals forced to meet the extremes of their own nature. Exploring the world created when tragic merges with comic; other writers might include Faulkner; Williams; Welty; Percy; Crews; Dickey; and Tyler.
ENGL 243: Lunatics Lovers and Poets: Southern Storytellers
Department
Degree Attributes
CLAS: (A) Literature,
CoB: Humanities,
SoAD: Humanities-'Other'