{"product_id":"understanding-eudora-welty-paperback-1","title":"Understanding Eudora Welty - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Kreyling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Eudora Welty \u003c\/i\u003eprovides close readings of Welty's novels and short stories and the memoir \u003ci\u003eOne Writer's Beginnings.\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Kreyling sifts through contemporary reviews and recent criticism in arriving at his assessment. Noting that Welty's work has been before the public and in the minds of literary critics for nearly a half century, he suggests that understanding the critical history of her canon is almost as important as understanding the works themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKreyling describes the New Critics' explanation of Welty's fiction, which was based on their preference for the unity of meaning in a well-made work of art. Kreyling also traces the mounting interest of feminist critics in Welty's work after the publication in 1984 of \u003ci\u003eOne Writer's Beginnings.\u003c\/i\u003e He credits feminist critics with providing some of the most refreshing appraisals of her writings in more than a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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. Questioning the sufficiency of any single label, Kreyling suggests that Welty never wrote to a formula and never wrote the same story twice. Kreyling maps the dynamic growth Welty exhibited in the depth and complexity of her vision and literary technique over the course of her career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn overview of the complete body of work by the first lady of American letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn overview of the complete body of work by the first lady of American letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Kreyling\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is editor of the Library of America editions of Eudora Welty's works and the author of \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty's Achievement of Order, Author and Agent: Eudora Welty\u003c\/i\u003e and Diarmuid Russell, and other books on southern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335893926137,"sku":"9781611170191","price":37.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZnJ3RFAwQ3hmblg3bG81ZnJPWFpTQT09_3a310fbd-036f-4166-b67a-31ae32fc5171.webp?v=1769663867","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/understanding-eudora-welty-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}