"But to be released is to tell, to unburden it": storytelling in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter.
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Published | 2005-12-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Renae R. Applegate House |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Eudora Welty |
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"... she was not able to tell her story backwards with such simplicity and assurance. Could I even begin to step back into those mists of what I wanted, what I thought I was doing ... without thoroughly losing my way?" (Godwin 539)
"I was right not to be afraid of anything but myself, who will end up leaving me nothing." (Porter 65)
"The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost." (Welty, One Writer's 90)
TO THE SOUTHERN WRITER OF FICTION, CONFRONTING ISSUES OF THE PAST becomes an essential part of being a great storyteller. The...
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