Short stories in Andalusia: an analysis of the setting in The River, The Comforts of Home and Good Country People, by Flannery O'Connor

• Grant number: 09/14283-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2009
• End date: November 30, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Cleide Antonia Rapucci
• Grantee: Ana Flávia Ramos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims a study of the setting in the short stories "The river" (1953), "The comforts of home" (1965) and "Good country people" (1955), by the writer Flannery O'Connor. The main objective of this study is to identify which settings, or which of their elements, such as objects and colors, compound to a better understanding of the stories, and analyze the role of 'representation' played by many of them. Therefore, the theoretical texts in which this research is based on are "Espaço e romance", by Antônio Dimas, "O sistema dos objetos", by Jean Baudrillard, "A cor no processo criativo", by Lilian Ried Miller Barros, and other books concerning the setting and Flannery O'Connor's literary production.