Flannery O'Connor as satirical priest

• Název práce v češtině: Flannery O'Connorová v roli satirické kazatelky
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Flannery O'Connor as satirical priest
• Klíčová slova: Flannery O'Connorová, Henri Bergson, Jižanská literatura, Smích, Satira, Ironie, Teorie nadřazenosti, Náboženství
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Flannery O'Connor, Henri Bergson, Southern Literature, Laughter, Satire, Irony,Superiority Theory, Religion
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2010/2011
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 09.06.2011
• Datum zadání: 09.06.2011
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 08.07.2011
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 11.09.2012 08:30
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 03.08.2012
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 11.09.2012
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

Flannery O´Connor is one of the twentieth century’s finest writers of short stories. Her short stories and novels are interwoven with religious concerns accentuated by symbols and a black humour that is often very scornful and satirical. In connection with her style, I would like to discuss the role of satire and her enduring Catholic faith. I would like to focus how she interprets her idea of a religion that provides not a restriction, but enables her to observe and criticize the problems of the modern society. I will analyze O’Connor’s Catholic themes firstly in the context of theology and secondly draw a parallel with Bergson's theory of laughter as a means to self-examination and self-criticism.
My selection from her short stories includes “The Partridge Festival”, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” “Good Country People”, "The Enduring Chill" and her novel Wise Blood.

Seznam odborné literatury

Bibliography:
O’Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1971.
O’Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1979.
O’Connor, Flannery. “Some Aspects of Grotesque in the Southern Fiction”
Secondary sources:
Asals, Frederic. The Double: Flannery O’Connor. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.
Bergson, Henri. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic. Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008.
Boren, Mark. “Flannery O’Connor: Laughter, and the World Made Flesh” Studies in American Fiction 26.1 (1998): 115-128.
Edlestein, Mark G. “Flannery O’Connor and the Problem of Modern Satire” Studies in Short Fiction 12.2 (Spring 1975): 139-144.
Hyman, Stanley Edgar. Flannery O´Connor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966.
Steed,J.P. “Through Our Laughter We Are Involved: Bergsonian Humor in Flannery O´Connor´s Fiction.” The Midwest Quarterly 46.3 (Spring 2005): 299- 313.
Thornquist, Inger. “Flannery O’Connor’s View of Alienation from Sacramental Faith Within Catholicism.” Magistra 6.2 (2000): 41+