Eudora Welty's Delta wedding /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 193 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Dialogue ; 4 Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 4.
Subject:	Welty, Eudora, -- 1909-2001. -- Delta wedding. Welty, Eudora, -- 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation. Welty, Eudora, -- 1909-2001. Delta wedding (Welty, Eudora) Women and literature -- Southern States. Literature. Women and literature. Delta (Miss. : Region) -- In literature. Mississippi -- Delta Region. Southern States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11190043

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Other authors / contributors:	Bouton, Reine Dugas.
ISBN:	9781441603968 1441603964 9042024356 9789042024359 9789401206120
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Eudora Welty's Delta wedding. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008 9042024356 9789042024359

Table of 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.

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