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1	Eloquent Distortion: The Southern Grotesque and Ideal Femininity in the works of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers Christovich, Michelle M 01 April 2013 (has links) In this paper, I will examine works of Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers, three Southern women writers who wrote during the first half of the twentieth century. While these authors differ in a number of ways, each of them produced work that deals, often explicitly, with ideal Southern womanhood and the expectations this ideal places upon women. Additionally, each of these three authors uses the grotesque as a tool for examining ideal womanhood, most often represented through the ideal of the Southern Lady. This paper is concerned with analyzing the link between the grotesque and the ideal of the Southern Lady, specifically the ways in which O’Connor, Welty, and McCullers employ the grotesque as a tool for exposing the limiting and destructive nature of this ideal. Grotesque Southern Lady Ideal Femininity the American South Literature in English, North America
2	Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George Wallace, James R. 17 July 2009 (has links) Eudora Welty’s characterization of George Fairchild (Delta Wedding) queers the heroic masculine ideal, St George, whose legendary exploits have been popularized in narrative literature, Catholic iconography, and children’s fairy tale. Lauded by the Fairchild women for his “difference,” George’s sexuality offers him an identity apart from the suffocating Fairchild family myth. George Fairchild’s queer sexuality and homoeroticism augments our critical understanding of Delta Wedding, the character, as well as other characters. The author’s subtly politicized construction of the novel’s ostensible hero subverts literary tradition, the gender binary, and patriarchal myth. Eudora Welty Delta Wedding George Fairchild St. George Fairy tale Intertextuality Hero Gender Patriarchal myth Queer theory Difference Homosexuality Homoeroticism John Robinson Identity Family Family myth Chivalry Southern lady Southern gentleman English Language and Literature

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Eloquent Distortion: The Southern Grotesque and Ideal Femininity in the works of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers

Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George