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Strange felicity : Eudora Welty's subtexts on fiction and society / Naoko Fuwa Thornton.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.E6 Z88 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, Naoko Fuwa, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Political and social views.
- Welty, Eudora.
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Technique.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- History.
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Technique.
- Social problems in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 183 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I Speaking For: Race 9
- Chapter 1 The Smoke and Safety-Valve of "Powerhouse" 11
- Chapter 2 Delta Wedding: A Celebration of a "Horrible World" 29
- Part II The Power of Language: Lies and Reality 47
- Chapter 3 The Robber Bridegroom: A Fiction of Lies 49
- Chapter 4 In Defense of Lies: "The Wide Net" 63
- Chapter 5 A Hilarious Destruction: The Glory of The Ponder Heart 69
- Part III Transforming the Genre: The Reader 81
- Chapter 6 The Mystery of the Narratee in "Old Mr. Marblehall" 83
- Chapter 7 "Everybody to Their Own Visioning": Connection through Dispersion in The Golden Apples 91
- Part IV "Everything and Nothing": The Author 111
- Chapter 8 Sideshadows of Life: The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories and "Other" Stories 113
- Chapter 9 Voices and Aphasia in "The Demonstrators" 125
- Chapter 10 The Authorial Retreat in Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275980480
- OCLC:
- 51543831
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