Song from San Francisco: space, time, and character in Eudora Welty's "Music from Spain".
| 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 | Matt Huculak |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Eudora Welty |
| Related Content | Type |
| The Golden Apples | Salem on Literature |
And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done --W.B. Yeats, "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
EUDORA WELTY CONSIDERED TIME AND PLACE TO BE THE "TWO BASES OF reference upon which the novel, in seeking to come to grips with human experience, must depend for its validity," and she notes that they "operate together, of course" ("Some Notes" 483). In "Music from Spain," the sixth chapter in The Golden Apples, Welty explores the symbiotic relationship between time and place in a unique way since the setting of the story, San Francisco, is an identifiable,...
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