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Estranged lives: the romantic grotesque in Carson McCullers fiction

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoAnálise da função do grotesco no estabelecimento da atmosfera em Reflections in a Golden Eye e The Ballad of the Sad Café, de Carson McCullers, a partir do conceito de grotesco Romântico, de Mikhail Bakhtin. A análise mostra que a falta do poder regenerativo que é característico do grotesco Romântico está presente nas duas obras estudadas, proporcionando-lhes uma atmosfera sombria

“精神隔绝”的多维空间:麦卡勒斯短篇小说的边缘视角探析

美国南方现代派代表女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯以其创作巅峰期的四部中长篇小说闻名,但是通常为公众所忽略的是,短篇小说及散文创作贯穿她的文学生涯始终。可以说,这些不同文类的作品作为麦氏\"精神隔绝\"主题的多重变奏,共同打造了一个\"精神隔绝\"的多维空间。本文围绕麦卡勒斯文集《抵押出去的心》及《伤心咖啡馆之歌》所收录的短篇小说及散文创作集中展开论述,重点探讨\"边缘视角\"在其作品中的主题意义。国家社科基金项目“麦卡勒斯与美国南方的现代性写作研究”(12BWW026

The Scarf Club

A novel comprises this creative thesis, which has been submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in English literature. This manuscript is the story of Lucy Merdock and how two major losses during her senior year of high school change the way she sees herself

Pebbles And Shards

Pebbles and Shards is a collection of personal essays based on family relationships that focus upon motherhood, responsibility, and the complexity of love and loss. The essays explore how people cope with the inevitability of loss and how they move beyond that loss to find something meaningful, perhaps even beautiful. They reflect upon success and failure in the face of loss and how, either way, life goes on, heedless of people’s desires and plans. The essays in Pebbles and Shards, while meant to stand alone, are thematically connected so that, read together, each story resonates with the others. In “Promises,” I explore the fear of watching my mother die of Alzheimer’s disease. In related essays “Frame by Frame” and “In Darkness,” I focus on my mother’s efforts to struggle with Alzheimer’s and how, as an adopted daughter, I underwent a role-reversal and became the mother figure. Other essays, such as “Heart of a Deadhead” and “Circus,” consider the mothering impulse, especially the guilt and conflict that so often accompany my desire to nurture others. In attempting to support and strengthen those who seem “weak,” I have sometimes found that my own actions and thoughts underscore a deeper weakness in myself. As a collection, Pebbles and Shards contemplates the suffering and joy that is a famil

Short Stories

This collection of seven representative original short stories will include four short stories relating to a fictional location in Dallas, the Starry Skies gay country-and-western dance hall. Three short stories set in fabulous, sometimes absurd settings, will follow. A preface dealing with the nature of fictional place and non-fictional place in fiction will precede the collection of short stories

Erotic scenographies : Blanchot, Nietzsche & the exigency of return

It is undoubtedly one of Kafka's finest erotic scenes – the description of K.'s furtive tryst on the tap-room floor. – Wrapped in Frieda's arms, he rolls back and forth through small puddles of beer and rubbish, her small body burning in his reluctant hands. "Hours passed there," writes Kafka, "hours breathing together with a single heartbeart [gemeinsamen Herzschlags], hours in which K. constantly felt he was lost or had wandered farther into foreign lands [der Fremde] than any human being before him..." What makes this passage so compelling is the manner in which Kafka, in four short lines, manages to distil everything ambiguous and terrifying about the erotic relation into a scene which, otherwise, could almost pass for sentimental