| Contents |
Eudora Welty as novelist: a historical approach / Michael Kreyling -- "Good as gold" : the role of the optimist in three novels by Eudora Welty / Jane Hinton -- Eudora Welty as lyric novelist : the long and the short of it / Ruth D. Weston -- Needing to talk : language and being in losing battles / Richard Gray -- Beyond loss : Eudora Welty's Losing battles / Karl-Heinz Westarp -- From Jerusalem to Jericho : good Samaritans in Losing battles / Bridget Smith Pieschel -- "Foes well matched or sweethearts come together" : the love story in Losing battles / Sally Wolff -- Losing battles and Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools: the commonality of modernist vision and Homeric analogue / Darlene Unrue -- Eudora Welty's indirect critique of The optimist's daughter / Patrick Samway -- The last rose of Mount Salus : a study of narrative strategies in The optimist's daughter / Hans H. Skei -- Region, time, and memory : The optimist's daughter as Southern Renascence fiction / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- The swift bird of memory, the breadboard of art : reflections on Eudora Welty and her storytelling / Marion Montgomery -- Component parts: the novelist as autobiographer / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- The construction of confluence : the female South and Eudora Welty's art / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. |
