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5 May 2018, 1:03 pm
With our perception of Atticus thus changed, it only makes sense for a playwright to draw on that dichotomy when writing an adaptation of either of Lee’s novels. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 6:01 am
Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 1:00 am
Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 10:22 am
The Prize honors Lee for the role model she created for the legal profession, Atticus Finch, and for the extraordinary cultural phenomenon that her novel has become. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 9:32 am
It remains one of the most widely-taught novels in American classrooms, and was also adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck as attorney Atticus Finch, who defends a black man accused of rape in Depression-era Alabama.Want to read, or re-read, Harper Lee's works? [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 5:29 am
Known chiefly for his defense that led to the exoneration of Clarence Lee Brandley Sr., who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in a 1980 murder case. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 1:29 pm
Ultimately, Harper Lee held a kind of reverse mirror up to segregationists by remaking her Atticus into a man who embodied what southern law and lawyers could be, if guided by fairness principles. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 1:29 pm
Ultimately, Harper Lee held a kind of reverse mirror up to segregationists by remaking her Atticus into a man who embodied what southern law and lawyers could be, if guided by fairness principles. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 1:04 pm
The greatest disconnect I noticed between the public commentary on GSAW, which has focused on Lee’s portrayal of Atticus as a racist Citizens’ Council member, is its glossing over of her portrayal of Jean Louise (Scout), which seems to be more nearly Lee’s own voice. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 5:19 am
” And Casey Cep has A Critic at Large essay titled “The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch: Harper Lee’s beloved father figure became a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway; Is he still a hero? [read post]
15 Sep 2009, 7:09 am
To be sure, a significant body of academic writing has been devoted to traditional Western literary figures like Atticus Finch from Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. [read post]
2 Mar 2019, 8:52 am
Atticus Grinch: “From Massachusetts to Utah, small community theater productions of To Kill a Mockingbird are being shut down under threat of a lawsuit by the producer of the new Broadway production. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 4:46 am
Atticus — who was based to some extent on Lee’s father — despises racism as a form of incivility but insists that any man, even Bob Ewell, can be understood if you walk in his shoes or crawl around in his skin. [read post]
17 May 2017, 12:59 pm
The Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction is awarded annually to the novel that "best exemplifies the role of lawyers in society in the spirit of Atticus Finch. [read post]
25 May 2010, 5:28 pm
Both Lamb and Lee liken Lee to Boo Radley, a character in Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird," which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. *** I blogged about "Mockingbird" back in 2005, noting: 1. the Law Review essay I wrote defending Atticus Finch from a feminist attack and 2. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 11:41 am
We see similar themes in Lee’s Mockingbird and now Watchman. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 4:29 am
I recently watched PBS American Masters documentary Harper Lee: Hey, Boo. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 4:29 am
I recently watched PBS American Masters documentary Harper Lee: Hey, Boo. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 12:49 pm
Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, The Martian, Godless) is starring as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 12:49 pm
Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, The Martian, Godless) is starring as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. [read post]
