Bibliographies

Prestianni, Vincent. "From Porter to O'Connor: Modern Southern Writers of Fiction. Seven Bibliographies of Bibliographies." Bulletin of Bibliography 48, No. 3 (September 1991): 137-51.

Provides a bibliography for other bibliographies about Welty and other Southern writers.

Criticism

Butterworth, Nancy K. "From Civil War to Civil Rights: Race Relations in Welty's 'A Worn Path.'" Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 165-72. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Discusses the place of race relation's in Welty's "A Worn Path" by analyzing the character of Phoenix.

Caldwell, Price. "Sexual Politics in Welty's 'Moon Lake' and 'Petrified Man.'" Studies in American Fiction 18, No. 2 (Autumn 1990): 171-81.

Discusses Welty's short stories "Petrified Man" and "Moon Lake" stating that "These stories portray the comedy of human beings trying to impose their interpretations on nature."

Clerc, Charles. "Anatomy of Welty's 'Where is the Voice Coming From?'" Studies in Short Fiction 23, No. 4 (Fall 1986): 389-400.

Analyzes Welty's short story "Where is the Voice Coming From?"

Eichelberger, Julia. "From Medusa to Sibyl: Welty's Art as Cultural Critique." Mississippi Quarterly 46, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 299-304.

Reviews Peter Schmidt's The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction.

Evans, Elizabeth. "Eudora Welty and The Dutiful Daughter." Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 57-68. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Discusses the heavy price daughters pay for being dutiful in three of Welty's works.

Flower, Dean. "Eudora Welty Come from Away." The Hudson Review XXXVIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1985): 473-480.

Analyzes Welty's position on the question of roaming or staying home.

Marrs, Suzanne. "'The Treasure Most Dearly Regarded': Memory and Imagination in Delta Wedding." The Southern Literary Journal XXV, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 79-91.

Asserts that "The emergence of distant memories from the unconscious mind and the very conscious examination of an era not her own are crucial to Welty's achievement in Delta Wedding, for perspective in time seems at once to provide her with vivid images, to prompt a metaphoric use of those images, and to grant her the freedom to alter and combine images in the service of her story's metaphoric patterns."

Mortimer, Gail L. "'The Way to Get There': Journeys and Destinations in the Stories of Eudora Welty." The Southern Literary Journal XIX, No. 2 (Spring 1987): 61-9.

Asserts that the journey is more important than the destination in Welty's fiction.

Peterman, Gina D. "A Curtain of Green: Eudora Welty's Auspicious Beginning." Mississippi Quarterly 46, No. 1 (Winter 1992): 91-114.

Discusses the history of Welty's first short-story collection A Curtain of Green.

Pitavy-Souques, Daniele. "On Suffering and Joy: Aspects of Storytelling in Welty's Short Fiction." Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 142-50. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Discusses the way Welty presents suffering in her stories.

Polk, Noel. "Going to Naples and Other Places in Eudora Welty's Fiction." Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 153-64. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Asserts that "Welty never exploits place, hers or anybody else's, for its own sake, but rather hopes, in writing about it, to see it anew, for the first time every time."

Romines, Ann. "How Not to Tell a Story: Eudora Welty's First-Person Tales." Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 94-104. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989.

Discusses Welty's stories in which she uses first-person narration.

Saunders, James Robert. "'A Worn Path': The Eternal Quest of Welty's Phoenix Jackson." The Southern Literary Journal XXV, No. 1 (Fall 1992): 62-73.

Discusses the importance of Phoenix Jackson's journey in Welty's "A Worn Path."

Schmidt, Peter. The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991, 312 p.

Provides a study of Welty's short stories and attempts to show "how through a sibylline sleight-of-hand Welty's art merges disguise and revelation into one motion."

Vande Kieft, Ruth Marguerite. Eudora Welty. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987, 209 p.

Provides a close reading of Eudora Welty's fiction.