The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 2003

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 2003

Reading John Robinson.
March 22, 2003... [Quentin and Shreve]... the two of them [were] creating between them, out of the rag-tag and bob-ends of old tales and talking, people who perhaps had never existed at all anywhere, who, shadows, were shadows not of flesh and blood which had...

Queer Welty, camp Welty.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. (1) Eudora invented camp. (2) I. No MATTER WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, wish we knew, or in future hope to discover...

Burying below sea level: the erotics of sex and death in The Optimist's Daughter.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... EUDORA WELTY MENTIONS WILLA CATHER ONLY ONCE, incidentally, in the two wonderful volumes collecting more than fifty interviews from 1942 to 1994. (1) Given Welty's extensive tribute to the author in "The House of Willa Cather" (1974), the...

"How babies could come" and "how they could die": Eudora Welty's children of the dark cradle.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In memory of Eudora Welty and her siblings, and for my mother's infant brother, and my own lost child. IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK, One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty recounts her memories of revelatory childhood moments. In one...

Sex and the Southern girl: Eudora Welty's critical legacy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... LEGENDS ABOUT THE SOUTH REMAIN AS POWERFUL as the place itself. Whether or not a genteel Southern aristocracy has ever existed continues to be an issue for scholarly debate, yet the legend of such an antebellum South and of the South as a...

Playing with fire: women's sexuality and artistry in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... WHILE THE START OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY finds us with a large, varied, and sophisticated body of criticism about Eudora Welty's fiction, essays, and photographs, there are still some surprising gaps in that criticism. The recent publication...

"Untamable texts": the art of Georgia O'Keeffe and Eudory Welty.
March 22, 2003... ALMOST TWO DECADES AFTER HER DEATH, Georgia O'Keeffe continues to be one of the most popular American artists of the twentieth century. We hang reproductions of her paintings in our homes, classrooms, and offices and record appointments in date...

Wild strawberries, cataracts, and climbing roses: clitoral and seminal imagery in The Optimist's Daughter.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... IN THE FIRST PAGES OF The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty draws our attention to judge McKelva sitting on his raised, "throne-like chair," flanked on one side by his new young wife, Fay, and on the other by his daughter Laurel, with Dr....