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Eudora Welty and Surrealism (Hardcover, New)
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Eudora Welty and Surrealism (Hardcover, New)
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Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most
productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the
1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely
through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent
traveler to New York City, where the surrealists exhibited, and a
keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their
work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's
perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition
of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's
premier venue for surrealist art. In a series of readings that
collectively examine A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide
Net and Other Stories, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The
Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, the book reveals how
surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative
literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends
beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also
foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical
phenomenon. Scattered throughout her stories are allusions to
personalities allied with the movement in the United States,
including figures such as Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, Caresse
Crosby, Wallace Simpson, Cecil Beaton, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth
Arden, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Henri Ford. Individuals such as
these and others whom surrealism seduced often lead unorthodox and
controversial lives that made them natural targets for moral
opprobrium. Eschewing such parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom
of surrealism to develop modernized depictions of the South, a
literary strategy that revealed not only cultural farsightedness
but great artistic daring.
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