Title
Eudora Welty and surrealism / Stephen M. Fuller.
ISBN
9781617036736 hardcover alkaline paper
1617036730 hardcover alkaline paper
1628460555
9781628460551
Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.
Language
English
Description
267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3545.E6 Z684 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
"Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler to New York City where the surrealists exhibited and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's premier venue for surrealist art. In a series of readings that collectively examine A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, the book reveals how surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical phenomena." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-258) and index.
Surrealism and Welty's early years in New York
The persistence of a memory in A curtain of green and other stories (1941)
Dreaming poured cream curtains in The wide net, and other stories (1943)
Hypnotized like swamp butterflies in Delta wedding (1946)
Visions of people as they were not in The golden apples (1949)
The wildness of the world behind the ladies' view in The bride of the Innisfallen and other stories (1955)
Among artistic leaders.
