Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / edited by Reine Dugas Bouton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouton, Reine Dugas.

Series:

Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 4.

Dialogue ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--Southern States.

Women and literature.

Delta (Miss. : Region)--In literature.

Delta (Miss. : Region).

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

Welty, Eudora.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. Delta wedding.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty’s novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press’s Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty’s noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel’s humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Reine Dugas Bouton

The Delta Wedding Blues / Reine Dugas Bouton

Delta Wedding: an Intricate Design of Humor and Celebration / Reine Dugas Bouton

“The Way for Girls in the World”: Laura’s Escape from Drowning in Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

Cixous’ New Woman: Laura and Shelley in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

“… nothing really, nothing really so very much happened!”: Indeterminate Meaning in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

Probing the Limits of the Self / Reine Dugas Bouton

“The anger, the love, the pride, and rest of marriage”: Women and Wedlock Ideology in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

Outlaws and Indians: Eudora Welty’s “Border” Characters in Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

“Seeing Things as They Really Are in Mississippi” : Delta Wedding’s Anatomy of Pure White Womanhood / Reine Dugas Bouton

Knowledge, Power, and Rhetoric in Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton

Notes on Contributors / Reine Dugas Bouton

Index / Reine Dugas Bouton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0612-0

9789401206120

1-4416-0396-4

OCLC:

714567243

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206129 DOI