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A Dark Rose - Love in Eudora Welty's Stories and Novels (Hardcover)
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A Dark Rose - Love in Eudora Welty's Stories and Novels (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first
published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," to the reflective
widow she described in her last novel, The Optimist's Daughter,
Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of
love. In a meticulous exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff
combines new readings of Welty's fiction with biography and
contextual information drawn from Wolff's nineteen-year friendship
with the author. A signature image in most of Welty's fiction, the
rose imparts symbolic power as it places Welty in the age-old
tradition of love literature. Wolff argues that the dark rose-from
the height of its brilliance to the end of its life-serves as a
deft metaphor for the dichotomies Welty presents, equally
suggestive of beauty and sadness, and the comic, tragic, and
mysterious qualities of love. While some of Welty's characters are
clearly autobiographical renderings-a daughter remembering her
parents' marriage, or a broodingly hopeful member of a large family
wedding-at other times, Welty analyzes from afar the dynamics of
successful and troubled loving relationships. Although Welty fell
in love more than once during her life, she never married, and
Wolff argues that writing from the vantage point of the unattached
gave Welty an objective perspective from which to examine in her
fiction the varied dimensions of love. A Dark Rose navigates
effortlessly among texts and examines Welty's portrayal of love in
all its nuance and intricacy. Though love in Welty's fiction may
fail, wear thin, or quietly take the hand of that grimmest of
bridegrooms-death-it nonetheless remains a vital force, alive in
the heart.
General
Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Southern Literary Studies |
Release date: |
2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Sally Wolff
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-5827-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8071-5827-5 |
Barcode: |
9780807158272 |
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