{"product_id":"the-eye-that-is-language-a-transatlantic-view-of-eudora-welty-hardcover","title":"The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanièle Pitavy-Souques\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePearl Amelia McHaney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways. The nine essays collected here offer scholars, critics, and avid readers a new understanding and enjoyment of Welty's work. The volume explores beloved stories in Welty's masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Apples, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as \"A Curtain of Green,\" \"Flowers for Marjorie,\" \"Old Mr. Marblehall,\" \"A Still Moment,\" \"Livvie,\" \"Circe,\" \"Kin,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Writer's Beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOne Time, One Place\u003c\/i\u003e. Essays include \"Technique as Myth: The Structure of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Apples\u003c\/i\u003e\" (1979), \"A Blazing Butterfly: The Modernity of Eudora Welty\" (1987), and others written between 2000 and 2018. Together, they reveal and explain Welty's brilliance for employing the particular to discover the universal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pitavy-Souques, who briefly lived in and often revisited the South, met with Welty several times in her Jackson, Mississippi, home. Her readings draw on the visual arts, European theorists, and styles of modernism, postmodernism, surrealism, as well as the baroque and the gothic. The included essays reflect Pitavy-Souques's European education, her sophisticated understanding of intellectual theories and artistic movements abroad, and her passion for the literary achievement of women of genius. \u003ci\u003eThe Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the way in which Welty's narrative techniques broaden her work beyond southern myths and mysteries into a global perspective of humanity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanièle Pitavy-Souques\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2019) was professor emerita at the University of Burgundy, France; a recipient of the Eudora Welty Society Phoenix Award and the French Legion of Honor for her work on international women's rights; and a European powerhouse of Welty studies. She published two books and more than a dozen essays on Welty, and she made major contributions to southern and Canadian studies. \u003cb\u003ePearl Amelia McHaney \u003c\/b\u003eis Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature Emerita at Georgia State University and a recipient of the Eudora Welty Society Phoenix Award for outstanding achievement in Welty studies. She is author of \u003ci\u003eA Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty as Photographer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOccasions: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Eudora Welty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty: The Contemporary Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Writer's Eye: Collected Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 188\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47410315395250,"sku":"9781496840585","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a6ddd8ea8bdb031e22e488ac638d83c4.webp?v=1778281942","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-eye-that-is-language-a-transatlantic-view-of-eudora-welty-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}