The body of criticism on Welty's fiction has failed to point out that, in The Robber Bridegroom, Welty tells a story that deals with a circumstance that is universal - the way fantasies and dreams shape us all, men and/or women; determine the inner self and the life path of each of us; and build in anxieties and visions of the world(s) whose boundaries lose meaning in everyday life. The cristicism has also negl...
The author reflects on the notion, also supported by Sevan Bercovitch, that American literature, dominated by the idea of «America - the New Chosen Land», is often clearly ideological. To this end the article reflects on the superiority of the implicit author in The Great Gatsby.
The authors's reading of Eudora Welty and her «Delta Wedding» leads to the conclusion that this writer has been giving us her own understanding of the South: a place linked to its past, without, however, being bound by it; on the contrary it is a place with windows opened onto the horizons of becoming. Welty thus appears as a prophetess who sees the South as a kind of heir whose heritage goes beyond its geograp...
Eudora Welty firmly insists both in interviews and in her essay “Must the Novelist Crusade?” that her fiction is apolitical. As the writer states in One Writer’s Beginnings, her stories are visions built not by particular political events or aims but, instead, by what she closely experienced and knew. With a thematic multiplicity concerning predominantly female characters and voices, and an undeniable complexit...
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