Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work

Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work
Title Eudora Welty--a bibliography of her work PDF eBook
Author Noel Polk
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 546
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Women and literature
ISBN 9781617033827

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One Writer's Beginnings

One Writer's Beginnings
Title One Writer's Beginnings PDF eBook
Author Eudora Welty
Publisher Scribner
Pages 160
Release 2020-11-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1982152109

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Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times). Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father’s coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother’s sturdy independence, Eudora’s earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South—of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught—she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing “the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Part memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, this unique distillation of a writer’s beginnings offers a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become.

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty
Title Eudora Welty PDF eBook
Author Suzanne Marrs
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 692
Release 2006
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780156030632

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In this definitive account of the life of one of the finest writers of the 20th century, Marrs restores Eudora Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's history from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature.

Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition

Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition
Title Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition PDF eBook
Author Noel Polk
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 221
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 1604733233

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As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written journal articles and essays, and discussed the rich legacy of the South's literary heritage around the world for over three decades. His work on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and other writers is incisive and groundbreaking. His essays in Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition maintain an abiding interest in Polk's major area of literary study: the relationship between the smaller units of construction in a literary work and the work's larger themes. The analysis of this interplay between commas and dashes, curious occlusions, passages, and characters who have often gone unnoticed in the critical discourse--the bricks and mortar, as it were--and a work's grand design is a crucial aspect of Polk's scholarship. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition collects Polk's essays from the late-1970s to 2005. Featuring an introduction that places Faulkner and Welty at the center of the South's literary heritage, the volume asks useful, probing questions about southern literature and provides insightful analysis. Noel Polk is professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of the Mississippi Quarterly . From 1981 to 2006, he edited the Library of America's complete edition of William Faulkner's novels. He is the author of Outside the Southern Myth; Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner; and Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work .

One Time, One Place

One Time, One Place
Title One Time, One Place PDF eBook
Author Eudora Welty
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 136
Release 1971
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780878058662

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Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.

The Heart of the Story

The Heart of the Story
Title The Heart of the Story PDF eBook
Author Peter Schmidt
Publisher
Pages 344
Release 1991
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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New scholarly vistas for the study of Weltyas stories. Winner of the 1991 Eudora Welty Prize

The Ponder Heart

The Ponder Heart
Title The Ponder Heart PDF eBook
Author Eudora Welty
Publisher HMH
Pages 159
Release 1967-10-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0547543921

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“A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. “The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”