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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Careless Scholarship,
By Ruth D. Weston (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eudora Welty (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers) (Library Binding)
The idea for this collection of excerpts is commendable, as an introduction to Welty for, perhaps, high school students; but a hardback at this price is too costly for that purpose, and the scholarship is too flawed for any use. Even a quick glance reveals (1) outdated information about the Welty scholars quoted and (2) errors in the bibliography. Ruth VandeKieft (not "Kieft") is deceased, Pollack is not at Sweetbriar, Prenshaw is no longer at Southern Mississippi, nor I at Oral Roberts University. Barbara Fialkowski did not write A Still Moment but, rather, one essay in it. This collection of excerpts looks as if it were put together quickly not by Bloom, who should know better, but by someone who does not know Welty or Welty criticism. Although my own book, excerpted in the text, is not listed in "Books About Welty," ten that are listed are general works I consulted but that are not themselves about Welty at all (including Frank, Kestner, Frye, Kayser, Fleenor, Gilligan, Weisenfarth). If the editor had consulted the excerpted authors, this could have been a better book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I Did Not Review THIS Book,
By Ruth D. Weston (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eudora Welty (Mod Crit Views) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (Hardcover)
I reviewed Bloom's 1999 Research Guide on Welty, not this 1986 Critical Views on Welty.
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Eudora Welty (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers) by Harold Bloom (Library Binding - Feb. 1999)
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