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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Eudora"”.
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"Framing in Eudora Welty's ""the Golden Apples"""
This dissertation argues that the analytical and critical vocabulary currently available to scholars in the field of oral interpretation significantly limits what they can see in a literary text and consequently what they can transform into performance. In an effort to expand this vocabulary, the …
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Eudora Welty : From "The Wanderers" to THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER
<p>The writings of Eudora A. Welty have been published since 1936. They include four collections of short stories and five novels. Although she is a highly anthologized southern writer and winner of several literary awards, serious criticism of her works has been limited to her early short stories …
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Eudora Welty: Family, Place, and Human Identity in Losing Battles
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On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>
… on the southern plantation 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 …
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Eudora Welty: An Evaluation of Materials and the Theme of Isolation
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The study of the Private: Eudora Welty's Short Stories and Photography
Welty’s argument stating the only part of fiction that matters is its integrity is seen in all of her work. When she writes of integrity, she states that the integrity of a novel is its ability to stand the test of time. Welty believes that the writer’s job is to take life and show it as it really …
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The study of the Private: Eudora Welty's Short Stories and Photography
Welty’s argument stating the only part of fiction that matters is its integrity is seen in all of her work. When she writes of integrity, she states that the integrity of a novel is its ability to stand the test of time. Welty believes that the writer’s job is to take life and show it as it really …
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Discovering the heart's truth : female initiation in the novels of Eudora Welty
The female characters in four of Eudora Welty's 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, …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
… and embodied borderlands in the fiction of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker. I have three objectives in this inquiry: first, to contribute to a conversation in New Southern Studies; second, to show how women’s bodies constitute embodied borderlands; and third, to show how class, race, gender, …
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Women in community : the influence of sorority on Eudora Welty and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Eudora Welty's carefully cultivated community of literary mentors and contemporaries has been well documented. Not only do these relationships garner Welty a wide array of literary comparisons, they show that she as a writer and reader made it a priority to build long lasting relationships with …
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The Feeder: A Study of the Fiction of Eudora Welty and Carson Mccullers
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Outings in the Queer South: Representations of Male Homosexuality in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty
This thesis investigates Welty's four short story collections and treats the stories as separate entities that are intimately connected to each other by a theme that evolves over and yet transcends the forty odd years that seem to separate them--namely Welty's theme of male homosexual desire. I …
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One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era
… of Mississippi-born authors Richard Wright and Eudora Welty. It argues that, though the authors' writing has traditionally been understood as residing on opposite sides of the political spectrum, they share a political vision of the rural South and urban North in the Depression era that is …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… of the circus and the sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured to conform to the …
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"Like an old song they carried in their memory": Eudora Welty's transformation of folklore in The Wide Net and other stories
… thesis looks at the importance of folklore in Eudora Welty's The Wide Net and Other Stories. Folklore fulfills several functions in this collection of stories: it connects the characters within the stories to their culture and the people around them as it highlights the differences between the …
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… works of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty depict the ways in which marginalized bodies are socially regulated and punished. By using Michel Foucault’s theories about power and knowledge, I explore how each of these works uses surveillance to regulate social behavior and what …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
This dissertation argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the …
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