A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs is the
first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of
achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty
scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex
assessments of Welty's journalism, book reviews, letters, essays,
autobiography, and photographs. Each chapter focuses on one genre,
filling in gaps left by previous books. With keen skills of
observation, finely tuned senses, intellect, wit, awareness of
Audience, and modesty, Welty applied her genius in all that she
did, holding a tough line on truth, breaking through "the veil of
indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each
other's plight." McHaney's study brings critical attention to the
under-evaluated genres of Welty's work and discusses the purposeful
use of arguments, examples, and styles, demonstrating that Welty
pursued her craft to a high standard across genres with a greater
awareness of context than she admitted in her numerous interviews.
Welty consistently dared new styles, new Audiences, and new
publishing venues in order to express her ideas to their fullest.
It is "serious daring," as she wrote in One Writer's Beginnings,
that makes for great writing. In "Place in Fiction," Welty asks,
"How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No
art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk-experiment-is
a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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