Eudora Welty, Updated Edition (Modern Critical Views)

Novelist, short story writer, and photographer, Eudora Welty has come to typify the Southern writer. Many of her works focus on interpersonal relationships, and they acutely capture the dialect and feel of her Mississippi roots. Among her best-known works are the short stories "Why I Live at the P.O." (inspiration for the software e-mail program, Eudora[registered]) and "The Petrified Man." Her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom
Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Monkeying around : Welty's "powerhouse," blues-jazz, and the signifying connection / Kenneth Bearden
Phoenix has no coat : historicity, eschatology, and sins of omission in Eudora Welty's "A worn path" / Dean Bethea 
Why sister lives at the P.O. / Charles E. May 
The love and the separateness in Miss Welty / Robert Penn Warren 
"All things are double," Eudora Welty as a civilized writer / Warren French
"The treasure most dearly regarded," memory and imagination in Delta wedding / Suzanne Marrs
The golden apples / Elizabeth Bowen
The strategy of Edna Earle Ponder / Marilyn Arnold 
The bride of the Innisfallen / Ruth M. Vande Kieft
"Foes well matched or sweethearts come together," the love story in Losing battles / Sally Wolff 
The onlooker, smiling : an early reading of The optimist's daughter / Reynolds Price 
The optimist's daughter : a woman's memory / Franziska Gygax 
Eudora Welty's sense of place / Denis Donoghue.