Calendrier du cours : 8 mercredis à partir du 13 octobre, de 8h30 à 11h30.
13 octobre Présentation générale; Flannery O'Connor and her Reader.
Commentaires de textes à préparer (et éventuellement à rendre):
"A Good Man is Hard to Find", 118-120 "The next morning [...] over the grandmother"
124-126 "They turned [...] a little spill."
20 octobre : Mystery and Manners: Flannery O'Connor's Intended Message
Essay subject: The Religious Quest in Flannery O'Connor
"A Stroke of Good Fortune"
"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"
"Revelation"Commentaires de textes:
246-248 (last section)
497-500 ("All at once [...] drum of flesh")
27 octobre : Southern Grotesques
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" "Greenleaf"Commentaires de textes:
136-138 ("Sally Poker would [...] the General screamed")
145-147 ("The old woman [...] than you and me.")
3 novembre : Misfortunes of the Almighty Brain
"Good Country People"
"The Comforts of Home"
"The Enduring Chill"Commentaires de textes:
287-289 ("The girl at first [...] miraculously, in his.")
375-377 ("'I'm Father Finn [...] very ignorant")
(10 novembre: pas de cours; devoir sur table proposé cette semaine)
17 novembre : Suffer Little Children ...
"The River"
"A Circle in the Fire"
"The Lame Shall Enter First"Commentaires de textes:
164-166 ("The preacher [...] said they would'")
445-447 ("Sheppard sat [...] sometime,' Sheppard said.")
24 novembre : Human Dealings
"The Artificial Nigger"
"The Displaced Person"
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"Commentaires de textes:
255-257 ("Nelson turned [...] Cane Syrup!'"
414-416 ("He began to imagine [...] teach you a permanent lesson.")
1 décembre Oedipus Rex
"Good Country People",
"The Comforts of Home" ,
"A View of the Woods"Commentaires de textes:
392-394 ("The next morning [...] we have everything.'")
354-356 ("What he had in mind [...] gorging itself on clay.")
3 décembre: à noter: journée d'études Flannery O'Connor, U. Paris X-Nanterre, bât. G, amphi A, à partir de 9H.
8 décembre: Beyond Mystery and Manners : the Developing Art of Flannery O'Connor.
"Parker's Back"
"The Geranium" / "Judgment Day"Commentaires de textes:
512-514 ("Parker was fourteen [...] became general.")
(ajout du 29/12/04) En relisant les nouvelles, pensez à repérer des exemples (accompagnés de citations à mémoriser) permettant de traîter des sujets de dissertation éventuels qui s'approcheraient de...