The female and the grotesque: bibliography and manuscripts on some of Flannery O'Connor's short stories

• Grant number: 15/19966-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: January 04, 2016
• End date: March 03, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Cleide Antonia Rapucci
• Grantee: Débora Ballielo Barcala
• Supervisor: Marshall Bruce Gentry
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Georgia College & State University (GCSU), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/23015-6 - The grotesque and the female character in Flannery O'Connor, BP.MS

Abstract

This project proposes to analyze the short stories "A Stroke of Good Fortune", "A Temple of the Holy Ghost", "Good Country People", "A View of the Woods", "Revelation" and "Parker's Back", by the American writer Flannery O'Connor, considering the grotesque elements in them, under the light of the manuscripts that may be examined at Ina Dillard Russell Library, at Georgia State College and University, in Milledgeville, GA. The main objective is to contrast the manuscripts with the published versions of the short stories to see whether there have been any significant changes made by the author regarding the grotesque elements and the female characters. This research is going to be based on the works of the grotesque theorists Wolfgang Kayser, Mikhail Bakhtin and Marry Russo. In addition to the analysis of the manuscripts, this project seeks to gather more critical material on Flannery O'Connor's work that may contribute to the main Masters research that cannot be found in Brazil, such as the works of Bruce Gentry, Anthony di Renzo and Teresa Caruso, who have already studied the grotesque in O'Connor's work as well as reflected about the presence of gender roles in the stories. (AU)