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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date Fall 1986) In the following essay, Pollack analyzes Welty's relationship with her readers.] Eudora Welty often speaks of her storytelling in terms that suggest it is a strategy for dealing with...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN THE EARLY 1960S, THE RACIALLY SEGREGATED WORLD OF MISSISSIPPI was undergoing groundbreaking changes. In 1962, James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, a school that was...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)During the years immediately before World War II, when Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind sparked a revival of interest in the legendary ante-bellum South, both Eudora Welty and Allen Tate by curious coincidence...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the years following the appearance of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in 1941, her story occasioned a good deal of speculation among her readers, and eventually, in 1974, she wrote an essay responding to the question...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionCentral in Eudora Welty's "Petrified Man" (collected in A Curtain of Green, 1941) are two conversations, a week apart, between Leota, owner of a shabby beauty shop, and her regular customer, Mrs. Fletcher. In the first...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhatever our place, it has been visited by a stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough. Eudora Welty (2) "TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL SLANT" (3): these words...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn memory of Eudora Welty and her siblings, and for my mother's infant brother, and my own lost child. IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK, One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty recounts her memories of revelatory childhood...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article is dedicated to the memory of Peyton W. Williams, Jr., (1916-1987), Professor of English at Mississippi State University and Editor of the Mississippi Quarterly. Eudora Welty's short story "Where is the...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEudora Welty uses cakes to describe the character of Southern women culture in her novel 'Delta Wedding.' Cakes are the perishable items that define women's domestic labor. Welty's cakes represent the cultural...
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From: Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Peters contends that the stories comprising The Golden Apples delineate the values of Morgana’s community.] In their analyses of the stories told by characters in Eudora...
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From: South Central Review[(essay date summer 1997) In the following essay, Mortimer probes the nature of perception in The Golden Apples by focusing on the essence of difference and sameness embodied by the MacLain twins.] A narrative feature...
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From: Kenyon Review[(interview date 2001) In the following essay, Levasseur and Rabalais discuss Ford's fictional work, paying particular attention to the difference between writing novels and writing short stories.] Richard Ford's...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)For Peggy Whitman Prenshaw's collection of tributes, I described Eudora Welty as a rare phenomenon in American letters, "a civilized writer." To explain my meaning, I must turn to Ruth M. Vande Kieft's introduction to...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date fall 1991) In the following essay, Hankins tries to come to a clear definition of the female künstlerroman through an analysis of Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples.] All of Eudora Welty's writings...
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From: Notes on Mississippi Writers[In the following essay, Ardolino attempts “to demonstrate that along with the Christian motifs of rebirth, the cycles of natural imagery presented create the theme of life emerging from death [in 'A Worn Path'].”]...
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From: The Southern Literary Journal[(essay date Fall 1988) In the following essay, Walter discusses Welty's Losing Battles.] The more one gets to know Eudora Welty's characters and to observe her construction of worlds in words and images, the more...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDear Members of the Nobel Prize for Literature Committee: Under separate cover I am sending you copies of Eudora Welty's novels, her recently collected stories and essays, and four recent volumes of criticism of her...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEudora Welty's collection entitled Photographs displays the author's keen eye for detail and her ability to convey important messages through visual images as well as written texts. One particular image demonstrates...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN "WRITING AND ANALYZING A STORY," THE ESSAY EUDORA WELTY WROTE about writing "No Place for You, My Love," she states, "This third character's role was that of hypnosis--it was what a relationship can do, be it however...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed--for Seetha Srinivasan and Hunter Cole READING THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER (1972) and A Summons to Memphis (1986) together makes good sense because not only do these two novels have much in common but so do their...