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| Author(s): |
Débora Ballielo Barcala
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Assis. 2017-03-13. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis |
| Defense date: | 2017-02-07 |
| Advisor: | Cleide Antonia Rapucci |
| 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" and "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, amputee, 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 (2013), Mikhail Bakhtin (2013) and Marry Russo (2000), besides studies about Flannery O'Connor's writing such as the work of Katherine Prown (2001) and other theorists of character analysis. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/23015-6 - The grotesque and the female character in Flannery O'Connor |
| Grantee: | Débora Ballielo Barcala |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |