| Description |
1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Surrealism and Welty's Early Years in New York; 2. The Persistence of a Memory in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (1941); 3. Dreaming Poured Cream Curtains in The Wide Net, and Other Stories (1943); 4. Hypnotized like Swamp Butterflies in Delta Wedding (1946); 5. Visions of People as They Were Not in The Golden Apples (1949); 6. The Wildness of the World behind the Ladies' View in The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories (1955); 7. Among Artistic Leaders; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V |
| Summary |
This book surveys Eudora Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. It shows how the 1930s witnessed the arrival of surrealism in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveller to New York City, where the surrealists exhibited, and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. Eschewing parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom of surrealism to develop modernised depictions of the South |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Jan. 15, 2013) |
| Subject |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 fast |
| Subject |
Surrealism (Literature) -- United States
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Art and literature -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Art and literature
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Surrealism (Literature)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012021121 |
| ISBN |
9781621039143 |
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1621039145 |
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9781617036743 |
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1617036749 |
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