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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gretlund, Jan Nordby.

Westarp, Karl-Heinz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Welty, Eudora.

Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 200 p. )

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

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.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-31990-1