Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction

Laurie Champion is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas. Her articles have appeared in The Southern Literary Journal and The Explicator, and she is the editor of The Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (Greenwood Press, 1991).

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• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 1941 Full-Length Portrait by Kay Boyle The Gothic South by Louise Bogan Life for Phoenix by Neil D. Isaacs Why Sister Lives at the P.O. by Charles E. May The Robber Bridegroom 1942; The Violent Country by John Peale Bishop American Fairy Tale by Lionel Trilling The Uses of Enchantment in Frontier Humor and The Robber Bridegroom by Merrill Maguire Skaggs Eudora Welty's Dance with Darkness: The Robber Bridegroom by Barbara Harrell Carson The Wide Net and Other Stories 1943 Fiction in Review by Diana Trilling Consolations of Poetry by Issac Rosenfield Persephone in Eudora Welty's "Livvie" by Peggy W. Prenshaw Delta Wedding 1946 Eudora Welty by Mary Alice Bookhart Fiction in Review by Diana Trilling Look Away, Look Away, Look Away by Hamilton Basso The Problem of Time in Welty's Delta Wedding by Douglas Messerli The Golden Apples 1949 Main Street in Dixie by Lee E. Cannon Notes by the Way by Margaret Marshall Five Southerners by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. The Thematic Unity of Welty's The Golden Apples by Wendell V. Harris The Ponder Heart 1954 Bossy Edna Earle Had a Word for Everything by V.S. Pritchett Witless on the Delta by John Chapman Edna Earle Ponder's Good Country People by John L. Idol, Jr. Ponder Heart Now out in Dramatic Version by Frank Hains Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart Gets Rave Notices at Broadway by Bette E. Barber The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories 1955 The Bride of the Innisfallen by Fred Bornhauser Miss Welty Magnificent in Newest Short Pieces by Frank Hains "The Sharp Edge of Experiment": The Poetics of "No Place for You, My Love" by Albert J. Devlin General Criticism 1955-1969 Name and Symbol in the Prose of Eudora Welty by William M. Jones Losing Battles 1970 Eudora Welty Talks about Her New Book, Losing Battles by Frank Hains Eudora Welty's Losing Battles Is Magnificent Feast by Louis Dollarhide Everything Brought out in the Open: Eudora Welty's Losing Battles by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Miss Welty's Wide World by Robert Drake Speech and Silence in Losing Battles by James Boatwright The Optimist's Daughter 1972 The Continuity of Love by James Boatwright The Past Reexamined: The Optimist's Daughter by Cleanth Brooks "The Freed Hands": The Power of Images in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter by Kim Martin Long General Criticism 1972-1979 Eudora Welty and the Use of Place in Southern Fiction by Elmo Howell Eudora Welty: The Three Moments by John A. Allen The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 1980 The Fine, Full World of Welty by Anne Tyler Songs of the South by Walter Clemons Journeys out of Separateness by Jennifer Uglow A Visit with Eudora Welty by Anne Tyler The Loving Vision by Robert Drake General Criticism 1980-1993 Family in Eudora Welty's Fiction by Sara McAlpin BVM On Welty's Use of Allusion: Expectations and Their Revision in "The Wide Net," The Robber Bridegroom and "At The Landing" by Harriet Pollack Diverting Swine: The Magical Relevancies of Eudora Welty's Ruby Fisher and Circe by Dawn Trouard Selected Other Readings Index