Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
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Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132704540
Eudora Welty Newsletter
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Eudora Welty Newsletter
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Eudora Welty Newsletter
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000125077291
Eudora Welty Newsletter by Anonim Pdf
Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work
Noel Polk
Author : Noel Polk
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 1617033820
Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work by Noel Polk Pdf
Welty
Albert J. Devlin
Author : Albert J. Devlin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 160473020X
Welty by Albert J. Devlin Pdf
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement as an incomparable literary artist. Since 1936, when "Death of a Traveling Salesman" was published, the excellence of her stories, novels, essays and collections has been giving unceasing acclaim, and she has become one of the most honored and most esteemed of American writers. The essays in this collection convey the scholarly pleasure one finds in studying the works of Eudora Welty. Although they employ varying critical methodologies, pleasure is at the source of the examinations published in this book. In these essays, forma, mythic, and thematic criticism from a variety of scholars offers fresh access to A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and Delta Wedding. One bibliographical study included shows Welty to be keenly attuned to the nuances of meaning during the writing and revising of The Opti
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Mae Miller Claxton,Julia Eichelberger
Author : Mae Miller Claxton,Julia Eichelberger
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781496814548
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty by Mae Miller Claxton,Julia Eichelberger Pdf
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Dawn Gilchrist, Rebecca L. Harrison, Casey Kayser, Michael Kreyling, Ebony Lumumba, Suzanne Marrs, Pearl Amelia McHaney, David McWhirter, Laura Sloan Patterson, Harriet Pollack, Gary Richards, Christin Marie Taylor, Annette Trefzer, Alec Valentine, Adrienne Akins Warfield, Keri Watson, and Amy Weldon Too often Eudora Welty is known to the general public as Miss Welty, a "perfect lady" who wrote affectionate portraits of her home region. Yet recent scholarship has amply demonstrated a richer complexity. Welty was an innovative artist with cosmopolitan sensibilities and progressive politics, a woman who maintained close friendships with artists and intellectuals throughout the world, a writer as unafraid to experiment as she was to level her pen at the worst human foibles. The essays collected in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty seek to move Welty beyond a discussion of region and reflect new scholarship that remaps her work onto a larger canvas. The book offers ways to help twenty-first-century readers navigate Welty's challenging and intricate narratives. It provides answers to questions many teachers will have: Why should I study a writer who documents white privilege? Why should I give this "regional" writer space on an already crowded syllabus? Why should I teach Welty if I do not study the South? How can I help my students make sense of her modernist narratives? How can Welty's texts help me teach my students about literary theory, about gender and disability, about cultures and societies with which my students are unfamiliar?
Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding
Reine Dugas Bouton
Author : Reine Dugas Bouton
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789042024359
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.
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Jacob Agner,Harriet Pollack
Author : Jacob Agner,Harriet Pollack
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496842725
Eudora Welty and Mystery by Jacob Agner,Harriet Pollack Pdf
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime. Put another way, Welty often creates her stories’ secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions. Some of these new readings continue Welty’s investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race—outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre’s greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald’s novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its “underground woman,” its unexpected “sleeping beauty.”
The Art of Fiction
David Lodge
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Eudora Welty
Harold Bloom
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115221
Eudora Welty by Harold Bloom Pdf
Presents a biography and critical views of the works of Eudora Welty.
Eudora Welty
Suzanne Marrs
Author : Suzanne Marrs
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156030632
Eudora Welty by Suzanne Marrs Pdf
In this definitive account of the life of one of the finest writers of the 20th century, Marrs restores Eudora Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's history from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature.
Eudora Welty
Ann Waldron
Author : Ann Waldron
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385476485
Eudora Welty by Ann Waldron Pdf
Eudora Welty is a beloved institution of Southern fiction and American literature, whose closely guarded privacy has prevented a full-scale study of her life and work--until now. A significant contribution to the world of letters, Ann Waldron's biography chronicles the history and achievements of one of our greatest living authors, from a Mississippi childhood to the sale of her first short story, from her literary friendships with Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen to her rivalry with Carson McCullers. Elegant and authoritative, this first biography to chart the life of a national treasure is a must-have for Welty fans and scholars everywhere.
Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race
Harriet Pollack
Author : Harriet Pollack
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820344324
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.
Eudora Welty
Pearl Amelia McHaney
Author : Pearl Amelia McHaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139443265
Eudora Welty by Pearl Amelia McHaney Pdf
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. From the first, reviewers loved Welty's language and disparaged her lack of plot. Their eager anticipation for the next book is rarely diminished by the shock of reading entirely different styles of writing. Her work was admired even as it challenged its readers. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the diversity of Welty's reception and assessment. Reviews from small towns, urban centers, noted fiction writers, professional reviewers, academics, and everyday readers are included. The comments of reviewing rivals such as the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, Nation and New Yorker, when read side by side, reveal the nuances both of the reviewers and of the work of this important Southern writer.
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Pearl Amelia McHaney
Author : Pearl Amelia McHaney
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1604732326
Eudora Welty as Photographer by Pearl Amelia McHaney Pdf
A centennial consideration of the great author's vision as expressed in her renowned photography
The Eye That Is Language
Danièle Pitavy-Souques
Author : Danièle Pitavy-Souques
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496840608
The Eye That Is Language by Danièle Pitavy-Souques Pdf
Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937–2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty’s view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty’s fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways. The nine essays collected here offer scholars, critics, and avid readers a new understanding and enjoyment of Welty’s work. The volume explores beloved stories in Welty’s masterpiece The Golden Apples, as well as “A Curtain of Green,” “Flowers for Marjorie,” “Old Mr. Marblehall,” “A Still Moment,” “Livvie,” “Circe,” “Kin,” and The Optimist’s Daughter, One Writer’s Beginnings, and One Time, One Place. Essays include “Technique as Myth: The Structure of The Golden Apples” (1979), “A Blazing Butterfly: The Modernity of Eudora Welty” (1987), and others written between 2000 and 2018. Together, they reveal and explain Welty’s brilliance for employing the particular to discover the universal. Pitavy-Souques, who briefly lived in and often revisited the South, met with Welty several times in her Jackson, Mississippi, home. Her readings draw on the visual arts, European theorists, and styles of modernism, postmodernism, surrealism, as well as the baroque and the gothic. The included essays reflect Pitavy-Souques’s European education, her sophisticated understanding of intellectual theories and artistic movements abroad, and her passion for the literary achievement of women of genius. The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty reveals the way in which Welty’s narrative techniques broaden her work beyond southern myths and mysteries into a global perspective of humanity.