The late novels of Eudora Welty

Author(s)

• Gretlund, Jan Nordby
• Westarp, Karl-Heinz

Bibliographic Information

The late novels of Eudora Welty

edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp ; foreword by Reynolds Price

University of South Carolina Press, c1998

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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, S.J.
• 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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study offers 14 essays by critics of Southern literature on Welty's last two novels: ""Losing Battles"" (1970), an experiment in narration, and ""The Optimist's Daughter"" (1972), a comment on our time and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. This collection seeks to stimulate interest in Welty's work as a novelist and to serve as a guide to reading and to teaching her late novels. The editors of this book 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 constitute such a journey from the discovery of her place to self-discovery and vision.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA36372714
• ISBN:
  • 1570032319
• LCCN: 97033949
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbia
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 200 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3545.E6
  • DC21 : 813/.52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Welty, Eudora, 1909- -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century