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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Delta Wedding"”.
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On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>
… lifestyle depicted in Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>. This thesis focuses on the female characters who adapt to the absence of the husbands during wartime. Wars are the catalyst for societal change in the novel, and the women must adapt to the new social changes that are encroaching …
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Discovering the heart's truth : female initiation in the novels of Eudora Welty
… five novels, The Robber Bridegroom (1942), Delta Wedding (1946), Losing Battles (1970), and The Optimist's Daughter (1972), undergo initiation experiences which are significant elements in the content and structure of the novels. Only in The Ponder, Heart (1954) is female initiation notably …
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The Cost Of Kinship: Southern Literary Families And The Capitalist Machine
… The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding (1946). Both novels are preeminently concerned with the breakdown of families that appear to embody the "Old South" ideal. Moreover, both novels repeatedly frame these breakdowns within the context of contemporary economic concerns. …
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The Queen of the Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, and Female Genealogy on the Plantation in Postslavery Women's Fiction
… Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, and Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order are woman-centered; each text focuses on a mother-child relationship and privileges the voices of women over the voices of male characters. These texts focus on female genealogy rather than a …