| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 193 pages) |
| Series |
Dialogue ; 4 |
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Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 4.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The Delta wedding blues / Barbara Sylvester -- Delta wedding : an intricate design of humor and celebration / Tereza Marques de Oliveira Lima -- "The way for girls in the world" : Laura's escape from drowning in Delta wedding / Julia Eichelberger -- Cixous' new woman : Laura and Shelley in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Elizabeth Crews -- " ... nothing really, nothing really so very much happened" : indeterminate meaning in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Cecilia Donohue -- Probing the limits of the self / Imola Bülgözdi -- "The anger, the love, the pride, and rest of marriage" : women and wedlock ideology in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Paula Elyseu Mesquita -- Outlaws and Indians : Eudora Welty's "border" characters in Delta wedding / Mae Miller Claxton -- "Seeing things as they really are in Mississippi" : Delta wedding's anatomy of pure white womanhood / Liza Kramer -- Knowledge, power, and rhetoric in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton |
| Summary |
Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty's novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press's Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty's noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel's humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianado |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. Delta wedding
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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 fast |
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Delta wedding (Welty, Eudora) fast |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Southern States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Literature
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Women and literature
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| SUBJECT |
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- In literature
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| Subject |
Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouton, Reine Dugas
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| ISBN |
9781441603968 |
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1441603964 |
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