{"id":104,"date":"2013-08-10T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:57:19","slug":"flannery-oconnor-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/10\/flannery-oconnor-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"“My Kind of Comedy”: An Exegetical Reading of Flannery O’Connor as Medieval Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MKoCLuluCover<\/a>Once upon a time, after I earned my PhD in May 2006, I pursued getting my dissertation published with an academic press. I actually got a serious bite from a university press<\/a> (one amongst dozens to whom I sent out the book proposal).<\/p>\n

But after nearly two years of non-followup-communication from that publisher (and after two years into a permanent full-time faculty position at a community college), the pressure to get my dissertation published was no longer there. Thus, my manuscript just sat there — mothballed.<\/p>\n

However, I would find myself referring to my dissertation to my composition students. Surprisingly, it was not as an example of Flannery O’Connor scholarship (although I was and still am proud of what I accomplished), but as an example what a successful result of the writing and research process CAN BE — if they only trusted in the process.<\/p>\n

Also, as time passed, the era of free and user-friendly self-publication arrived, so I thought, “Why not?”<\/p>\n

So, world, here it is —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, after I earned my PhD in May 2006, I pursued getting my dissertation published with an academic press. I actually got a serious bite from a university press (one amongst dozens to whom I sent out the book proposal). But after nearly two years of non-followup-communication from that publisher (and after … Continue reading “My Kind of Comedy”: An Exegetical Reading of Flannery O’Connor as Medieval Drama<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,9,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}