The late novels of Eudora Welty / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp ; foreword by Reynolds Price.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
• Westarp, Karl-Heinz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Criticism and interpretation.
• Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
• Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Women and literature.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Southern States.
• History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1998]

Summary:

• While Welty has received much praise for her work as a writer of short fiction, a critic and reviewer, a photographer, and an autobiographer, her career as a novelist has been largely neglected by critics and the reading public alike. In this collection, fourteen new essays by internationally distinguished critics of southern literature provide focused appraisals of the writer's last two novels: Losing Battles (1970) and The Optimist's Daughter (1972).
• Editors Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp contend that to see beyond the South, it is not enough to apprehend the region and be imaginatively nourished by it; a journey of self-discovery is required in order to gain the necessary, distance. Welty's late novels triumphantly constitute such a journey from the discovery of her place to self-discovery and vision.

Contents:

• Eudora Welty as novelist: a historical approach / Michael Kreyling
• "Good as gold" : the role of the optimist in three novels by Eudora Welty / Jane Hinton
• Eudora Welty as lyric novelist : the long and the short of it / Ruth D. Weston
• Needing to talk : language and being in losing battles / Richard Gray
• Beyond loss : Eudora Welty's Losing battles / Karl-Heinz Westarp
• From Jerusalem to Jericho : good Samaritans in Losing battles / Bridget Smith Pieschel
• "Foes well matched or sweethearts come together" : the love story in Losing battles / Sally Wolff
• Losing battles and Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools: the commonality of modernist vision and Homeric analogue / Darlene Unrue
• Eudora Welty's indirect critique of The optimist's daughter / Patrick Samway
• The last rose of Mount Salus : a study of narrative strategies in The optimist's daughter / Hans H. Skei
• Region, time, and memory : The optimist's daughter as Southern Renascence fiction / Mary Ann Wimsatt
• The swift bird of memory, the breadboard of art : reflections on Eudora Welty and her storytelling / Marion Montgomery
• Component parts: the novelist as autobiographer / Jan Nordby Gretlund
• The construction of confluence : the female South and Eudora Welty's art / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1570032319

OCLC:

37770349