Eudora Welty and surrealism / Stephen M. Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Stephen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism (Literature)--United States.

Surrealism (Literature).

Art and literature--United States.

Art and literature.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Criticism and interpretation.

Welty, Eudora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book surveys Eudora Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. It shows how the 1930s witnessed the arrival of surrealism in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveller to New York City, where the surrealists exhibited, and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. Eschewing parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom of surrealism to develop modernised depictions of the South.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Surrealism and Welty's Early Years in New York; 2. The Persistence of a Memory in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (1941); 3. Dreaming Poured Cream Curtains in The Wide Net, and Other Stories (1943); 4. Hypnotized like Swamp Butterflies in Delta Wedding (1946); 5. Visions of People as They Were Not in The Golden Apples (1949); 6. The Wildness of the World behind the Ladies' View in The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955); 7. Among Artistic Leaders; Notes; Works Cited; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-914-5

OCLC:

823390274