Flannery O’Connor was an American short story writer of the mid-20th Century who possessed exceptional talent and received high critical acclaim, yet her work today seems obscure if not apocryphal. “Dismissed as a minor writer by some critics, totally rejected by others…” (Lukas 5197) or as eloquently described in 1997 by Joseph Zornado …[R]ecent scholarship ...
You’ve been there, sitting in art class, as you professor lectured on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” The first time, it was an Art History class and he lectured on the role in American Art History of Grant Wood. “American Gothic” was studied in your composition class, as you listened for hours about the three vertical ...
In 1942, groundbreaking African-American photographer Gordon Parks went to work for the Farm Security Administration in Washington, DC. Born in Kansas, but raised in Minnesota, Parks was unprepared for the depths of prejudice that characterized the nation’s capitol at that time. He later said that “discrimination and bigotry were worse there than any place I ...
The NBC hit TV show Medium revolves around Allison Dubois, a wife and mother of three, who uses her psychic abilities to help solve crimes. Here is a look at the actors who portray the Dubois family on Medium: Patricia Arquette as Allison Dubois / Mother & Wife Patricia Arquette plays the lead on Medium ...
Since its first appearance in The New Yorker on June 28, 1948, Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery,” has become somewhat of a literary phenomenon. Over the years, the story has been “anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even [. . .] made into a ballet” (“On the Morning” 227). Much of the story’s popularity is owed ...
One of America’s best known paintings, American Gothic (1930), was painted by Grant Wood (1892-1942), a painter best known for the traditional paintings of his home-state, Iowa. American Gothic was the result of a movement known as regionalism. Regionalism was a movement in 1930s America that was a reaction and resistance to Europeans attempt to ...
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