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Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty
Delta Wedding Book PDF

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547538686

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This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.

Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding

Reine Dugas Bouton
Eudora Welty s Delta Wedding Book PDF

Author : Reine Dugas Bouton
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789042024359

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Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding by Reine Dugas Bouton Pdf

Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty's novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press's Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty's noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel's humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.

Daughters of the Canton Delta

Janice Stockard
Daughters of the Canton Delta Book PDF

Author : Janice Stockard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804720142

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Daughters of the Canton Delta by Janice Stockard Pdf

This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, 'delayed transfer marriage', that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely established in the Canton Delta. In striking contrast to the orthodox Confucian form of marriage, brides in delayed transfer marriages were required to separate from their husband shortly after marriage and return to live with their parents for at least three more years. During this customary period of separation, brides were expected to visit their husband on several festival occasions each year. Idelly, brides became pregnant about three years after marriage and then settled in the husband's home. The area in which delayed transfer marriage was the customary and dominant form of marriage encompassed the rich silk-producing district of the Canton Delta as well as adjacent rice-producing areas. The book analyzes the effect of economic change on the practice of delayed transfer marriage in the silk district.

Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty
Delta Wedding Book PDF

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156252805

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Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty Pdf

A portrait of a large Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi delta land in 1923.

Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens

Louise Westling
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens Book PDF

Author : Louise Westling
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332024

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Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens by Louise Westling Pdf

In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men--a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the actual conditions of women's lives, creating assertive protagonists who resist or revise conventional roles, and exploring rich matriarchal traditions and connections to symbolic landscapes Welty, McCullers, and O'Connor created a body of fiction that enriches and complements the patriarchal version of southern life presented in the works of William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and William Styron.

Delta wedding

Eudora Welty
Delta wedding Book PDF

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Delta (Miss. : Region)
ISBN : OCLC:647959292

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Delta wedding by Eudora Welty Pdf

A portrait of a large Southern family who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative and the family's preparations for her cousin's wedding.

A Tissue of Lies

Jennifer Lynn Randisi
A Tissue of Lies Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Lynn Randisi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819124524

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A Tissue of Lies by Jennifer Lynn Randisi Pdf

A study linking the novels of Eudora Welty to a tradition of Southern romance writers. Beginning with the Civil War diarists, the author isolates and defines the components of the Southern romance, tracing Welty's adaptation of each component within the novels themselves and revealing a twofold importance: it connects the literature of the Civil War diarists to the work of Eudora Welty in a meaningful way while illuminating her work in the light of a Southern Romance tradition.

Cooking Lessons

Sherrie A. Inness
Cooking Lessons Book PDF

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742575356

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Cooking Lessons by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake—because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives.

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race

Harriet Pollack
Eudora Welty Whiteness and Race Book PDF

Author : Harriet Pollack
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820344324

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Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race by Harriet Pollack Pdf

Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness. Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel, Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in America and that she connected this history to lives on either side of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack, Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.

One Writer's Imagination

Suzanne Marrs
One Writer s Imagination Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Marrs
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807128414

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One Writer's Imagination by Suzanne Marrs Pdf

In One Writer's Imagination, Suzanne Marrs draws upon nearly twenty years of conversations, interviews, and friendship with Eudora Welty to discuss the intersections between biography and art in the Pulitzer Prize winner's work. Through an engaging chronological and comprehensive reading of the Welty canon, Marrs describes the ways Welty's creative process transformed and transfigured fact to serve the purposes of fiction. She points to the sparks that lit Welty's imagination -- an imagination that thrived on polarities in her personal life and in society at large. Marrs offers new evidence of the role Welty's mother, circle of friends, and community played in her development as a writer and analyzes the manner in which her most heartfelt relationships -- including her romance with John Robinson -- inform her work. She charts the profound and often subtle ways Welty's fiction responded to the crucial historical episodes of her time -- notably the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement -- and the writer's personal reactions to war, racism, poverty, and the political issues of her day. In doing so, Marrs proves Welty to be a much more political artist than has been conventionally thought. Scrutinizing drafts of Welty's work, Marrs reveals an evolving pattern of revision increasingly significant to the author's thematic concerns and precision of style. Welty's achievement, Marrs explains, confirms theories of creativity even as it transcends them, remaining in its origins somewhat mysterious. Marrs's relationship to Eudora Welty as a friend, scholar, and archivist -- with access to private papers and restricted correspondence -- makes her a unique authority on Welty's forty-year career. The eclectic approach of her study speaks to the exhilarating power of imagination Welty so thoroughly enjoyed in the act of writing.

Understanding Eudora Welty

Michael Kreyling
Understanding Eudora Welty Book PDF

Author : Michael Kreyling
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570032831

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Kreyling instead reveals the dynamic growth in the depth and complexity of Welty's vision and literary technique over the course of her career."--BOOK JACKET.

Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet

Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays
Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn t Catch That Bouquet Book PDF

Author : Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781401305758

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Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet by Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays Pdf

Even if you've never attended a wedding in the South, you'll find laughter in the pages of this deliciously entertaining slice of Southern life and love, complete with recipes, advice, and a huge dose of that famous charm "In the Mississippi Delta, funerals bring out the best in people, while weddings, which are supposed to be happy occasions, bring out the worst." So say Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, authors of the bestseller Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, who turn their keen eyes and sharp wit from the end of the life cycle to the all-important midpoint. For anyone planning, participating in, or attending a wedding (Southern or not), this book will amuse, entertain, and provide advice for marital bliss, including: It's OK to peek at an etiquette book, but if you rely too heavily on it, people will think that you are not fully acquainted with what is right and wrong. Anything that was not done in the past doesn't need to be done now--consider this before ordering a groom's cake, especially one featuring a fishing-tackle or golfing theme.

Serious Daring

Susan Letzler Cole
Serious Daring Book PDF

Author : Susan Letzler Cole
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610755955

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Serious Daring by Susan Letzler Cole Pdf

Serious Daring is the story of the complementary journeys of two American women artists, celebrated fiction writer Eudora Welty and internationally acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell, each of whom initially practiced, but then turned from, the art form ultimately pursued by the other. For both Welty and Purcell, the art realized is full of the art seemingly abandoned. Welty’s short stories and novels use images of photographs, photographers, and photography. Purcell photographed books, texts, and writing. Both women make compelling art out of the seeming tension between literary and visual cultures. Purcell wrote a memoir in which photographs became endnotes. Welty re-emerged as a photographer through the publication of four volumes of what she called her “snapshots,” magnificent black-and-white photographs of small-town Mississippi and New York City life. Serious Daring is a fascinating look at how the road not taken can stubbornly accompany the chosen path, how what is seemingly left behind can become a haunting and vital presence in life and art.

Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton

Yvonne Mason
Reading Learning Teaching Clyde Edgerton Book PDF

Author : Yvonne Mason
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0820481432

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Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton by Yvonne Mason Pdf

This is an introduction to the literature of contemporary American writer Clyde Edgerton. A North Carolina native, Edgerton has been compared to Mark Twain for his easy, humorous style, which is based in oral tradition. Like Twain and other humorous writers, Edgerton's work often contains both biting satire and exploration of very large questions about the human condition. The book contains an overview of each of his novels and his memoir in addition to offering critical commentary on theme, craft, and structure. Pedagogical support is offered with specific strategies that will encourage authentic engagement and learning. Teachers will find specific companion pieces of literature for introducing Edgerton's vivid and challenging work. This book presents the case for including more of Clyde Edgerton's work in our secondary and college English language arts classrooms as a means of revitalizing curricula and challenging the ways we traditionally think about teaching.

At Home, at War

Jennifer Anne Haytock
At Home at War Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Anne Haytock
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814209325

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At Home, at War by Jennifer Anne Haytock Pdf

This study demonstrates that such literary divisions as war novel and domestic novel limit readers' understanding of the ways these categories rely on and respond to each other. Haytock argues that gender creates an ideological context through which both domesticity and war are viewed and understood; issues of home and violence are intricately related for U.S. authors who wrote about the First World War. Haytock explores what war and domestic texts represent in light of the deconstructionist said in its cultural and historical context and seeing what is not said. Readers take food, shelter, and clothing for granted, and yet the way we treat them is part of what allows us to define ourselves as civilized. In war novels and domestic novels by Temple Beiley, Ellen, Glasgow, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, John Dos Passons, Thomas Boyd, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, the idea of home and domestic rituals contribute to the creation of war propaganda, the soldier's experience of war, and the home front's ability to confront the war after the fact. This approach helps literary criticism reject the separation of men's and women's writing, particularly but not only their writing about war.