Overview

Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. Journals that specialize in American literature, journals that publish general essays, and journals that focus on Southern literature frequently include articles about her works. Her writings have been included in anthologies and have been adapted for the stage and television. This book traces the evolving critical response to her fiction. In a lucid introductory essay, Champion presents an overview and summarizes the body of criticism on Welty's fiction. The rest of the volume presents representative selections of criticism from the initial reception of Welty's work to the present day. The selections are grouped in chapters devoted to Welty's principal writings. Her fiction is treated chronologically, and the selections within each chapter are also arranged in chronological order. Thus the book charts the development of Welty criticism over an extended period of time. A bibliography of works for further reading completes the volume.

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Author:   Laurie Champion
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Volume:   No. 12.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.738kg
ISBN:  

9780313285967

ISBN 10:   0313285969
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   30 April 1994
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 1941 Full-Length Portrait by Kay Boyle The Gothic South by Louise Bogan Life for Phoenix by Neil D. Isaacs Why Sister Lives at the P.O. by Charles E. May The Robber Bridegroom 1942; The Violent Country by John Peale Bishop American Fairy Tale by Lionel Trilling The Uses of Enchantment in Frontier Humor and The Robber Bridegroom by Merrill Maguire Skaggs Eudora Welty's Dance with Darkness: The Robber Bridegroom by Barbara Harrell Carson The Wide Net and Other Stories 1943 Fiction in Review by Diana Trilling Consolations of Poetry by Issac Rosenfield Persephone in Eudora Welty's ""Livvie"" by Peggy W. Prenshaw Delta Wedding 1946 Eudora Welty by Mary Alice Bookhart Fiction in Review by Diana Trilling Look Away, Look Away, Look Away by Hamilton Basso The Problem of Time in Welty's Delta Wedding by Douglas Messerli The Golden Apples 1949 Main Street in Dixie by Lee E. Cannon Notes by the Way by Margaret Marshall Five Southerners by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. The Thematic Unity of Welty's The Golden Apples by Wendell V. Harris The Ponder Heart 1954 Bossy Edna Earle Had a Word for Everything by V.S. Pritchett Witless on the Delta by John Chapman Edna Earle Ponder's Good Country People by John L. Idol, Jr. Ponder Heart Now out in Dramatic Version by Frank Hains Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart Gets Rave Notices at Broadway by Bette E. Barber The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories 1955 The Bride of the Innisfallen by Fred Bornhauser Miss Welty Magnificent in Newest Short Pieces by Frank Hains ""The Sharp Edge of Experiment"": The Poetics of ""No Place for You, My Love"" by Albert J. Devlin General Criticism 1955-1969 Name and Symbol in the Prose of Eudora Welty by William M. Jones Losing Battles 1970 Eudora Welty Talks about Her New Book, Losing Battles by Frank Hains Eudora Welty's Losing Battles Is Magnificent Feast by Louis Dollarhide Everything Brought out in the Open: Eudora Welty's Losing Battles by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Miss Welty's Wide World by Robert Drake Speech and Silence in Losing Battles by James Boatwright The Optimist's Daughter 1972 The Continuity of Love by James Boatwright The Past Reexamined: The Optimist's Daughter by Cleanth Brooks ""The Freed Hands"": The Power of Images in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter by Kim Martin Long General Criticism 1972-1979 Eudora Welty and the Use of Place in Southern Fiction by Elmo Howell Eudora Welty: The Three Moments by John A. Allen The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 1980 The Fine, Full World of Welty by Anne Tyler Songs of the South by Walter Clemons Journeys out of Separateness by Jennifer Uglow A Visit with Eudora Welty by Anne Tyler The Loving Vision by Robert Drake General Criticism 1980-1993 Family in Eudora Welty's Fiction by Sara McAlpin BVM On Welty's Use of Allusion: Expectations and Their Revision in ""The Wide Net,"" The Robber Bridegroom and ""At The Landing"" by Harriet Pollack Diverting Swine: The Magical Relevancies of Eudora Welty's Ruby Fisher and Circe by Dawn Trouard Selected Other Readings Index"

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?Recommended for all American Literature reference collections.?-Reference Book Review

Author Information

Laurie Champion is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas. Her articles have appeared in The Southern Literary Journal and The Explicator, and she is the editor of The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (Greenwood Press, 1991).

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