Contains a selection of contemporary critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century American author Eudora Welty, and includes an introduction, bibliographic references, and a chronology of Welty's life.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Monkeying around : Welty's "powerhouse," blues-jazz, and the signifying connection / Kenneth Bearden -- Phoenix has no coat : historicity, eschatology, and sins of omission in Eudora Welty's "A worn path" / Dean Bethea -- Why sister lives at the P.O. / Charles E. May -- The love and the separateness in Miss Welty / Robert Penn Warren -- "All things are double," Eudora Welty as a civilized writer / Warren French -- "The treasure most dearly regarded," memory and imagination in Delta wedding / Suzanne Marrs -- The golden apples / Elizabeth Bowen -- The strategy of Edna Earle Ponder / Marilyn Arnold -- The bride of the Innisfallen / Ruth M. Vande Kieft -- "Foes well matched or sweethearts come together," the love story in Losing battles / Sally Wolff -- The onlooker, smiling : an early reading of The optimist's daughter / Reynolds Price -- The optimist's daughter : a woman's memory / Franziska Gygax -- Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue.