In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty's writing arises, Fulbright Scholar Jan Nordby Gretlund contends that her writing represents the South's collective experience from the Depression to the present. Gretlund demonstrates that Welty's realistic fiction reveals an aesthetic allegiance to agrarian values, and that her "sense of place" ultimately reflects a sense of how to live. 8 halftones .
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This review is from: Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place (Hardcover)
This book is a must for any Welty scholar. It is one of those rare books that I wish I could read again and again. It accomplishes much more than its modest title would suggest. Gretlund has long been one of the most erudite critics of southern lit. Teaching both in Europe and at Ole Miss, he is more objective yet has an insider's knowledge. This achievement reaffirms his place at the top of literary critics not just in Europe or America but in the world.
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This review is from: Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place (Hardcover)
Gretlund has really done all Welty readers a huge favour by writing this book. And for all those of you out there not yet familiar with the writings of Eudora Welty...read this book.
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Reviewer from Mississippi--Get your Facts Straight,
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This review is from: Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place (Hardcover)
Gretlund wrote EUDORA WELTY'S AESTHETICS OF PLACE, and it is a fine book. It is not an edited volume, as the Mississippi reviewer states in his attack. I suggest putting away the bourbon bottle and getting the facts correct before reviewing any more books.
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In Welty's celebrated "Powerhouse" (1941) there is a passage which it is hard to understand fully without the necessary biographical and literary contexts: When any group, any performers, come to town, don't people always come out and hover near, leaning inward about them, to learn what it is? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steadying point, purple hat, agrarian values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eudora Welty, New York, Mount Salus, Losing Battles, Delta Wedding, Miss Eckhart, The Optimist's Daughter, San Francisco, Boone County, New Orleans, Uncle Daniel, The Ponder Heart, Julia Mortimer, Miss Katie, Katherine Anne Porter, Southern Review, Troy Flavin, Baton Rouge, Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, Critical Essays, Edna Earle, Henri Bergson, Louisiana State University Press New!
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In Welty's celebrated "Powerhouse" (1941) there is a passage which it is hard to understand fully without the necessary biographical and literary contexts: When any group, any performers, come to town, don't people always come out and hover near, leaning inward about them, to learn what it is? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steadying point, purple hat, agrarian values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eudora Welty, New York, Mount Salus, Losing Battles, Delta Wedding, Miss Eckhart, The Optimist's Daughter, San Francisco, Boone County, New Orleans, Uncle Daniel, The Ponder Heart, Julia Mortimer, Miss Katie, Katherine Anne Porter, Southern Review, Troy Flavin, Baton Rouge, Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, Critical Essays, Edna Earle, Henri Bergson, Louisiana State University Press New!
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- The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty on 22 pages
- A Curtain of Green: and Other Stories by Eudora Welty on 13 pages
- Eudora Welty: Critical essays by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw on 12 pages
- Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America) by Eudora Welty on 10 pages
- The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty on 9 pages
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