Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1496814533 ISBN 13 : 9781496814531

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2017

Synopsis

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Dawn Gilchrist, Rebecca L. Harrison, Casey Kayser, Michael Kreyling, Ebony Lumumba, Suzanne Marrs, Pearl Amelia McHaney, David McWhirter, Laura Sloan Patterson, Harriet Pollack, Gary Richards, Christin Marie Taylor, Annette Trefzer, Alec Valentine, Adrienne Akins Warfield, Keri Watson, and Amy Weldon

Too often Eudora Welty is known to the general public as Miss Welty, a "perfect lady" who wrote affectionate portraits of her home region. Yet recent scholarship has amply demonstrated a richer complexity. Welty was an innovative artist with cosmopolitan sensibilities and progressive politics, a woman who maintained close friendships with artists and intellectuals throughout the world, a writer as unafraid to experiment as she was to level her pen at the worst human foibles.

The essays collected in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty seek to move Welty beyond a discussion of region and reflect new scholarship that remaps her work onto a larger canvas. The book offers ways to help twenty-first-century readers navigate Welty's challenging and intricate narratives. It provides answers to questions many teachers will have: Why should I study a writer who documents white privilege? Why should I give this "regional" writer space on an already crowded syllabus? Why should I teach Welty if I do not study the South? How can I help my students make sense of her modernist narratives? How can Welty's texts help me teach my students about literary theory, about gender and disability, about cultures and societies with which my students are unfamiliar?

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mae Miller Claxton is professor at Western Carolina University. She is editor of Conversations with Dorothy Allison and coeditor (with Rain Newcomb) of Conversations with Ron Rash and (with Julia Eichelberger) of Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Julia Eichelberger is Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston. She is author of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty; editor of Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949; and coeditor of Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches. She has also written articles in the Eudora Welty Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and other publications. In 2016 she was honored with the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Welty studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496814533
• ISBN 13: 9781496814531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Claxton Mae Miller, Eichelberger Julia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible