Eudora Welty
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers; Chelsea House Pub (L)
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791093115
Subjects: Welty, Eudora, -- 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: A collection of critical essays on Eudora Welty's work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw; title: Monkeying around : Welty's "powerhouse," blues-jazz, and the signifying connection / Kenneth Bearden; title: Phoenix has no coat : historicity, eschatology, and sins of omission in Eudora Welty's "A worn path" / Dean Bethea; title: Why sister lives at the P.O. / Charles E. May; title: The love and the separateness in Miss Welty / Robert Penn Warren; title: "All things are double," Eudora Welty as a civilized writer / Warren French; title: "The treasure most dearly regarded," memory and imagination in Delta wedding / Suzanne Marrs; title: The golden apples / Elizabeth Bowen; title: The strategy of Edna Earle Ponder / Marilyn Arnold; title: The bride of the Innisfallen / Ruth M. Vande Kieft; title: "Foes well matched or sweethearts come together," the love story in Losing battles / Sally Wolff; title: The onlooker, smiling : an early reading of The optimist's daughter / Reynolds Price; title: The optimist's daughter : a woman's memory / Franziska Gygax; title: Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue.