Eudora Welty: The Contemporary ReviewsPearl Amelia McHaney Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. From the first, reviewers loved Welty's language and disparaged her lack of plot. Their eager anticipation for the next book is rarely diminished by the shock of reading entirely different styles of writing. Her work was admired even as it challenged its readers. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the diversity of Welty's reception and assessment. Reviews from small towns, urban centers, noted fiction writers, professional reviewers, academics, and everyday readers are included. The comments of reviewing rivals such as the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, Nation and New Yorker, when read side by side, reveal the nuances both of the reviewers and of the work of this important Southern writer. |
Contents
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM 1942 | 19 |
THE WIDE NET 1943 | 33 |
DELTA WEDDING 1946 | 49 |
MUSIC FROM SPAIN 1949 | 73 |
THE GOLDEN APPLES 1949 | 77 |
THE PONDER HEART 1954 | 97 |
THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN 1955 | 113 |
THE SHOE BIRD 1964 REPRINT 1993 | 139 |
THE OPTIMISTS DAUGHTER 1972 | 209 |
THE EYE OF THE STORY 1978 | 253 |
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY 1980 | 281 |
ONE WRITERS BEGINNINGS 1984 | 311 |
PHOTOGRAPHS 1989 | 335 |
COLLECTED BOOK REVIEWS 1994 | 347 |
COMPLETE NOVELS AND STORIES ESSAYS MEMOIR 1998 | 359 |
COUNTRY CHURCHYARDS 2000 | 379 |
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