The grotesque and the female character in Flannery O'Connor

• Grant number: 14/23015-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2015
• End date: February 28, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Cleide Antonia Rapucci
• Grantee: Débora Ballielo Barcala
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/19966-8 - The female and the grotesque: bibliography and manuscripts on some of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The present work intends to analyse the short stories A Stroke of good fortune, A temple of the holy ghost, Good country people, A view of the woods, Revelation e Parker's back by the American writer Flannery O'Connor, considering what is grotesque in them. Special attention is going to be paid to the representation of the grotesque body - the deformed, amputed, modified, sick body. Once the grotesque elements are considered, analyses of the female character is going to be carried out: how they are constructed and what it may represent in terms of subversion of the patriarchal authority and of the particularities of Flannery O'Connor's writing. Finally, approximation between the grotesque and the representation of the woman is going to be done based on the author's stories. This research is going to be based on the works of the grotesque theorist Wolfgang Kayser, Mikhail Bakhtin and Marry Russo, besides studies about Flannery O'Connor's writing such as the work of Katherine Prown and other theorists of character analysis. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARCALA, Débora Ballielo. The grotesque and the female character in short stories by Flannery O'Connor. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis Assis.