The Conflict of Country and City in Flannery O´Connor´s Short Stories
| Thesis title in Czech: | Konflikt venkova a města v povídkách Flannery O´Connor |
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| Thesis title in English: | The Conflict of Country and City in Flannery O´Connor´s Short Stories |
| Key words: | venkov, město, modernizace, rodinné vztahy, konflikt generací |
| English key words: | country, city, modernization, family relationships, conflict between generations |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2010/2011 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 06.06.2011 |
| Date of assignment: | 06.06.2011 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 20.06.2011 |
| Date and time of defence: | 05.02.2013 08:30 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 17.01.2013 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 05.02.2013 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The objective of this bachelor thesis is to investigate the theme of conflict of the tension between Southern country areas characterized by agriculture tradition and spreading modernization connected with urbanization in short stories by Flannery Connor. It will focus on reflection of this conflict in family relationships, mainly in generation confrontation, in short stories “The Artificial Nigger”, “You Can´t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”, “A View of the Woods”, and “Judgment Day”. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to show two tendencies in the conflict of country and city and in the way characters represent it – protagonists either stands for the opposite forces of country and city or they undergo change of inner self and identity after confrontation with city.
The first part of the bachelor thesis will focus on the historical background of agricultural tradition and the reasons of urbanization of southern regions. It will serve as introduction to the problematic of the conflict between features of country and modernization. The second part will concentrate on the selected stories and the way characters deal with the spreading modernization and with direct confrontation with city. It will firstly investigate the tendency that is characterized by protagonists reflecting two opposite forces of country and city. This tendency will be illustrated in stories “A View of the Woods” and “Judgment Day”. Secondly, the bachelor thesis will show the tendency of inner development and change of protagonists in stories “The Artificial Nigger” and “You Can´t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”. Furthermore, this bachelor thesis will deal with the symbols of the stories and the way they support the theme of the conflict and interconnect selected stories. |
| References |
| Walters, Dorothy. Flannery O´Connor. Boston : Twayne, 1973.
Gray, Richard. The Literature of Memory : Modern Writers of the American South. London : E. Arnold, 1977. Whitt, Margaret Earley. Understanding Flannery O´Connor. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Kelley, Robert. The Shaping of the American Past : Volume 1 & Volume 2. 4th edition. Englewoods Cliffs : Prentice-Hall, 1986. Bradbury, Malcolm; TEMPERLEY, Howard. Introduction to American Studiues. 2nd edition. London : Longman, 1989. |