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Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers
<p>Carson McCullers's neglected short stories "Sucker", "Like That", and "The Haunted Boy" depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in …
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The Feeder: A Study of the Fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson Mccullers
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Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in <em>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</em> by Carson McCullers.
<p>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter thrust Carson McCullers onto the literary scene at the age of 23. The year was 1940, and anticapitalistic fervor was at its peak. McCullers, familiar with the writings of Karl Marx, expresses in this novel her concern for the exploited classes, her disdain for a …
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Carson McCullers' altered vision : meaningful patterns in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding.
… shift in tone between the first two decades of Carson McCullers' writing. Indeed, she makes The Member of the Wedding a more life-affirming and less fatalistic version of certain sections of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by subtly rewriting three characters from the first novel into the later …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… thesis is to explore the commonalities between Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
This dissertation argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the …
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, John O'Hara and other American writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. The collection is prefaced by an introduction intended to give a …
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers, placing his songs in the context of southern writers. His music emphasizes the language and rituals of the people around him in Georgia, especially Athens, who helped give him such a strong sense of regionalism. A history of the …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… not generally be placed there (Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers, Maria Irene Fornes, Joan Schenkar, the group Split Britches, and Wendy Kesselman).</p> <p>The chapter on feminist anthropology applies Gayle Rubin's idea of "the exchange of women" to three plays from the 1940s. The chapter on …
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
… focus on Katherine Anne Porter's 'Noon Wine,' Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and Polish descent, …
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The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman
… the American South during the twentieth century: Carson McCullers' <em>The Member of the Wedding</em> (1946), Bobbie Ann Mason's <em>In Country</em> (1985) and Dorothy Allison's <em>Bastard Out of Carolina</em> (1993). I seek to challenge the very notion of the conventional tomboy within the …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent a spectrum of authors published in both trade and mass-market fiction. In Chapter One, I look at author-publisher relationships as evidenced through material in the Houghton Mifflin archive to determine …