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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from April 1 2009
A quarterly referred journal of culture of the southern United States. Articles include historical analysis, literary criticism, and original research. Published by Mississippi State University.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from April 1 2009
Eudora Welty: awards and honors.(List)
April 1, 2009... 1920--Silver Badge, St. Nicholas Magazine, for a drawing "A Heading for August."
1925--Gold Badge, St. Nicholas Magazine, for a poem "In the Twilight."
1938--"Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" in The Best American Short Stories of 1938....
Eudora Alice Welty: April 13, 1909-July 23, 2001.(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, 1941
The Robber Bridegroom, 1942
The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943
Delta Wedding, 1946
Music From Spain, 1948
The Golden Apples, 1949
Selected Stories, 1954
The Ponder...
A Eudora Welty Checklist, 1986-2008.(List)
April 1, 2009... THE FOLLOWING CHECKLIST INTENDS TO CONTINUE THE EFFORTS OF NOEL POLK'S"A EUDORA Welty Checklist, 1936-1972" (MissQ 26.4 [1973]: 663-693) and Pearl Amelia McHaney's "A Eudora Welty Checklist, 1973-1986" (MissQ 39.4 [1986]: 651-697) which were...
Revaluative reading and literary memory in Welty's The Optimist's Daughter.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... IN LAURENCE STERNE'S A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, MR. YORICK, THE sentimental traveler, hears a plaintive child's voice calling that "it could not get out" (71). Yorick soon discovers that this captive is not a child but a caged starling:
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Eudora Welty's Losing Battles: cars and family values.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... THAT THE CAR PERMEATES AMERICAN CULTURE IS OBVIOUS. RARELY HAS a single object taken hold so quickly and re-cast American life so completely. It enabled women to get out of the house, children to get off the farm, and everyone to get off their...
"The Burning": extreme reversal to meet life's obligations.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... IN EUDORA WELTY'S "THE BURNING," THEIR FATHER AND BROTHER AWAY fighting in the Civil War, the two adult daughters of a Mississippi plantation owner are alone with their slaves when the Yankees come to burn down their house. For Theo, the elder,...
Eudora Welty and the Merlin principle: aspects of story-telling in The Golden Apples--"The Whole World Knows" and "Sir Rabbit".(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... Specific in the work, in the mind, but not describable anywhere else--or not by me; shape is something felt. It is the form of the work that you feel to be under way as you write and as you read. At the end, instead of farewell, it tells over...
Cinematic modernism and Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... IN A SYNERGY PERHAPS NOT AS "FAMOUS" AS THAT OF WALKER EVANS AND James Agee, Eudora Welty worked within two registers, as both fiction writer and photographer. Those registers dynamically come together in The Golden Apples, a text, as we will...
Dark-purple faces and pitiful whiteness: maternity and coming through in Delta Wedding.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... EUDORA WELTY'S DELTA WEDDING PERCOLATES WITH WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES of sexuality. Six pregnant, recently pregnant, and potentially or rumored-to-be pregnant women populate the story: Ellen Fairchild, the ideal and idolized plantation mother;...
Fish stories: revising masculine ritual in Eudora Welty's "The Wide Net".(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... REPLETE WITH FETISHIZED OBJECTS AND PLACES (MASKS, SWEAT LODGES AND sitting spots), pseudo-tribal rituals (hunting, dancing, drumming, initiatory wounds), and a symbolic mapping of "the deep masculine" that consists of, among other things,...
Carnival geeks and Voudoun healing: the performance of white guilt and African American empowerment in Eudora Welty's "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden".(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... IN "KEELA: THE OUTCAST INDIAN MAIDEN" (1940), A YOUNG MAN NAMED Steve appears in Cane Springs, Mississippi, and begins obsessively telling the story of his time as a barker in a traveling carnival show to a local juke-joint owner named Max....
Eudora Welty: the liberal imagination and Mississippi politics.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... FOR EUDORA WELTY, AN ACT OF UNDERSTANDING--POLITICAL, SOCIAL, OR personal--was typically an act of the imagination. Through fiction, art, music, she sought to comprehend her world. Not surprisingly, then, she examined Mississippi politics...