David A. King, Ph.D. News & Columns
David A. King, Ph.D. is professor of English and film studies at Kennesaw State University and director of OCIA at Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta.
David A. King, Ph.D.
“The Call Of Muriel Spark’s ‘Memento Mori’”
English
Sometimes, in spite of all the thinking and planning and pontificating a professor brings to his class, the student says it best. So it was last week, when my literary theory class was discussing Muriel Spark’s 1959 novel “Memento Mori.” “I am familiar with ‘coming-of-age’ stories, but this is the first ‘coming-of-old’ age story I […] English
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