Title: Understanding Eudora Welty
First published: 1999
Description: "Offering fresh insights into the work of one of America's classic fiction writers, Understanding Eudora Welty provides close readings of Welty's novels and short stories and the memoir One Writer's Beginnings. Michael Kreyling sifts through contemporary reviews and recent criticism in arriving at his assessment."--BOOK JACKET.

"As he considers the many assessments and reassessments of Welty's work, Kreyling uncovers and discusses the myriad identities that critics have attached to her - that of southern writer, southern gothicist, "Southern Renaissance" writer, modernist, and feminist. Denying the sufficiency of any single label, Kreyling suggests that Welty never wrote to a formula and never wrote the same story twice.

Kreyling instead reveals the dynamic growth in the depth and complexity of Welty's vision and literary technique over the course of her career."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, History, Welty, eudora, 1909-2001, Women in literature, Southern states, in literature, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: Southern States
People: Eudora Welty (1909-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3545.E6 Z752 1999