Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty by Weston, Ruth D - 1994

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Louisiana State University Press, 1994. 202pp. Tan cloth hardback, DJ VG, index, bibliography, footnotes, Gothic traditions and narrative techniques in the fiction of Eudora Welty, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Hardback. New. In this study, Ruth D. Weston probes the whole of Eudora Welty's work to reveal the writer's close relationship to the gothic tradition. Specifi cally, Weston shows how Welty employs the theme of enclosure and escape and settings that convey a sense of mystery, gothic adaptations both, to create certain narrative techniques in her fi ction. Differentiating at the outset between the Gothic genre as opposed to elements of the gothic tradition, and acknowledging both critics' and Welty's own reluctance to link her writing with the former, Weston plunges in and brilliantly discloses the relationship Welty's writing has to both, and in doing so describes a rich literary heritage to which Welty belongs. She shows how the tradition of adapting European Gothic conventions to American settings has come down to us through writers such as Hawthorne, particularly through the short story, and continues in Welty's fi ction. Among Welty's narrative techniques that Weston… Read More

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1994. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.