skip to content
Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place
ClosePreview this item

Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place

Author: Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Eudora Welty's fiction has come out of a particular place and is based on the writer's familiarity with its people. Jan Nordby Gretlund suggests that there is an obvious need, in today's literary climate, to consider the historical and cultural background for Eudora Welty's literary achievement. Guided by her aesthetics of place and with an eye on biographical, political, and cultural developments, he sees Welty as  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place.
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1994
(OCoLC)621184966
Online version:
Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place.
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1994
(OCoLC)629719187
Named Person: Eudora Welty; Eudora Welty; Eudora Welty
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jan Nordby Gretlund
ISBN: 0874135621 9780874135626
OCLC Number: 30547902
Description: xv, 456 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. Wedded to Place. Ch. 1. Finding a Place. Ch. 2. Living in the Country. Ch. 3. Wandering in the City. Ch. 4. A Trace of Humor --
Pt. II. Part of Our Own Map. Ch. 5. An Old Story from the Delta. Ch. 6. The Morgana Community. Ch. 7. From the Jackson Interior. Ch. 8. In Boone County --
Talking. Ch. 9. Old Mount Salus Blues. Ch. 10. Eudora Welty's Place
Responsibility: Jan Nordby Gretlund.

Abstract:

Eudora Welty's fiction has come out of a particular place and is based on the writer's familiarity with its people. Jan Nordby Gretlund suggests that there is an obvious need, in today's literary climate, to consider the historical and cultural background for Eudora Welty's literary achievement. Guided by her aesthetics of place and with an eye on biographical, political, and cultural developments, he sees Welty as an individual whose fiction represents the collective experience in the South from the Depression to the present. Welty's realistic fiction is read as her aesthetic declaration of allegiance to the values of traditional Agrarianism. And her fictional portraits of city-life are seen as showing individual failure as a part of general social failure. In Jan Nordby Gretlund's analysis Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place is finally indistinguishable from the ethics of living in a place and finding one's identity in relation to it. In her fiction, existential decisions originate in the individual sense of place and community and have moral consequences. By focusing on her native place, remembering its past, identifying with it, and expressing its essence in fiction, Eudora Welty discovers and rediscovers her own self. The writer's imagination is bound to a place, which in the fiction becomes her "gateway to reality" and to a world of possibility.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30547902>
library:oclcnum"30547902"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/30547902>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Person
schema:name"Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001"
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:author
schema:copyrightYear"1994"
schema:datePublished"1994"
schema:description"Pt. I. Wedded to Place. Ch. 1. Finding a Place. Ch. 2. Living in the Country. Ch. 3. Wandering in the City. Ch. 4. A Trace of Humor -- Pt. II. Part of Our Own Map. Ch. 5. An Old Story from the Delta. Ch. 6. The Morgana Community. Ch. 7. From the Jackson Interior. Ch. 8. In Boone County -- Talking. Ch. 9. Old Mount Salus Blues. Ch. 10. Eudora Welty's Place"
schema:description"Eudora Welty's fiction has come out of a particular place and is based on the writer's familiarity with its people. Jan Nordby Gretlund suggests that there is an obvious need, in today's literary climate, to consider the historical and cultural background for Eudora Welty's literary achievement. Guided by her aesthetics of place and with an eye on biographical, political, and cultural developments, he sees Welty as an individual whose fiction represents the collective experience in the South from the Depression to the present. Welty's realistic fiction is read as her aesthetic declaration of allegiance to the values of traditional Agrarianism. And her fictional portraits of city-life are seen as showing individual failure as a part of general social failure. In Jan Nordby Gretlund's analysis Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place is finally indistinguishable from the ethics of living in a place and finding one's identity in relation to it. In her fiction, existential decisions originate in the individual sense of place and community and have moral consequences. By focusing on her native place, remembering its past, identifying with it, and expressing its essence in fiction, Eudora Welty discovers and rediscovers her own self. The writer's imagination is bound to a place, which in the fiction becomes her "gateway to reality" and to a world of possibility."
schema:genre"History"
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place"
schema:numberOfPages"456"
schema:publisher
rdf:typeschema:Organization
schema:name"University of Delaware Press"
schema:publisher
rdf:typeschema:Organization
schema:name"Associated University Presses"
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.