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Understanding Eudora Welty provides close readings of Welty's novels and short stories and the memoir One Writer's Beginnings. Michael Kreyling sifts through contemporary reviews and recent criticism in arriving at his assessment. Noting that Welty's work has been before the public and in the minds of literary critics for nearly a half century, he suggests that understanding the critical history of her canon is almost as important as understanding the works themselves.

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An excellent resource for academics and general readers alike.... A must for every library. -- ""Choice"" Kreyling attends closely to the myriad ways his subject has used language and shows how generations of critics have tried to unravel the mystery of Eudora Welty's work; his book should provide a useful introduction for new readers. -- ""Times Literary Supplement""

Kreyling attends closely to the myriad ways his subject has used language and shows how generations of critics have tried to unravel the mystery of Eudora Welty's work; his book should provide a useful introduction for new readers. Times Literary Supplement

Kreyling attends closely to the myriad ways his subject has used language and shows how generations of critics have tried to unravel the mystery of Eudora Welty's work; his book should provide a useful introduction for new readers. -- Times Literary Supplement An excellent resource for academics and general readers alike.... A must for every library. -- Choice

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Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is editor of the Library of America editions of Eudora Welty's works and the author of Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order, Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell, and other books on southern literature.

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