Eudora Welty and surrealism
By: Stephen M. Fuller
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781617036736; 9781617036743
Subjects: Surrealism (Literature); Art and literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler 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. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's premier venue for surrealist art. In a series of readings that collectively examine A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, the book reveals how surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical phenomena."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.