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Welty, Eudora,--1909- --Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
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1998
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PS3545.E6Z755 1998eb
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Welty, Eudora,--1909- --Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
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The Late Novels of Eudora Welty
Edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp
Foreword by Reynolds Price
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All essays 1998 by the University of South Carolina Foreword 1998 by Reynolds Price Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The late novels of Eudora Welty / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp ; foreword by Reynolds Price. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-57003-231-9 1. Welty, Eudora, 1909 Criticism and interpretation. 2. Women and literature-Southern StatesHistory20th century. I. Gretlund, Jan Nordby. II. Westarp, Karl-Heinz. PS3545.E6Z755 1998 813'.52dc21 97-33949
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CONTENTS
A Useful Offer
Reynolds Price
vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Reading Eudora Welty's Late Novels
Jan Nordby Gretlund
xi
Introductory Essays
Eudora Welty as Novelist A Historical Approach
Michael Kreyling
3
"Good as Gold" The Role of the Optimist in Three Novels by Eudora Welty
Jane Hinton
18
Part I: Losing Battles
Eudora Welty as Lyric Novelist The Long and the Short of It
Ruth D. Weston
29
Needing to Talk Language and Being in Losing Battles
Richard Gray
41
Beyond Loss Eudora Welty's Losing Battles
Karl-Heinz Westarp
56
From Jerusalem to Jericho Good Samaritans in Losing Battles
Bridget Smith Pieschel
67
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"Foes Well Matched or Sweethearts Come Together" The Love Story in Losing Battles
Sally Wolff
84
Losing Battles and Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools The Commonality of Modernist Vision and Homeric Analogue
Darlene Unrue
94
Part II: The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty's Indirect Critique of The Optimist's Daughter
Patrick Samway, S.J.
107
The Last Rose of Mount Salus A Study of Narrative Strategies in The Optimist's Daughter
Hans H. Skei
122
Region, Time, and Memory The Optimist's Daughter as Southern Renascence Fiction
Mary Ann Wimsatt
134
The Swift Bird of Memory, the Breadboard of Art Reflections on Eudora Welty and Her Storytelling
Marion Montgomery
145
Concluding Essays
Component Parts The Novelist as Autobiographer
Jan Nordby Gretlund
163
The Construction of Confluence: The Female South and Eudora Welty's Art
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
176
Index
195
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FOREWORD: A USEFUL OFFER
Reynolds Price
Eudora Welty's blessedly long career has been regarded from many angles, some saner than others. This collection of studious looks at her late novels comes as a welcomeif overdueaid to her readers, old and new, and to young writers in need of hope. What is perhaps not a salient fact to her academic critics, so formidably displayed here, may be useful to stateand to state in the voice of a fiction writer who has benefited from her work since his own adolescence some fifty years ago.
The happy result cannot have been a part of a plan that Welty conceived for her books as they came to her; but any contemporary discussion with three or more younger writers from the states of the Old Confederacy is likely to reveal thatfar more than William Faulkner, the obsessively studied Male Heavy Ordnance of the regionEudora Welty has served as an eminently useful transitional figure, a superbly excellent and benign guide, for the men and women who were reared like her in the South and whose special problem as apprentice writers has been the finding of true, yet authentically native, voices for the communication of their unique findings: findings which are nonetheless often variations upon or transformed echoes of the work of their Southern predecessors in narrative prose.
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