Occasions
Selected Writings
Published on 30. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-4968-2107-2 (ISBN)
Description
Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America's most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by Welty (1909-2001) that are largely unknown and have not been reprinted since their first appearances in magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers.
The gathering includes one of Welty's earliest stories, ""Acrobats in the Park""; a self-analysis of her art printed in the Twenty Photographs portfolio; a recipe for Aunt Beck's Chicken Pie served up in the novel Losing Battles; and a parody of Edmund Wilson's scurrilous New Yorker review of one of William Faulkner's late novels. These occasional essays, tributes, stories, and comments will delight readers and reveal more of the genius of a favorite author deeply engaged with her people and their customs.
In these pieces Welty put pen to paper for just causes: electing honorable officials, selling war bonds, and promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy; in reviews of sculpture, painting, dance, and photography; and in her candid remarks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Optimist's Daughter. Her sly humor emerges in ""Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!,"" a delightful parody of projects suggested in Popular Mechanics. Written between the 1930s and the 1990s, these fictions, essays, commemorations, reviews, and salutes reveal the sparkling imagination of a celebrated writer who continues her hold on a wide audience through these newfound pleasures.
The gathering includes one of Welty's earliest stories, ""Acrobats in the Park""; a self-analysis of her art printed in the Twenty Photographs portfolio; a recipe for Aunt Beck's Chicken Pie served up in the novel Losing Battles; and a parody of Edmund Wilson's scurrilous New Yorker review of one of William Faulkner's late novels. These occasional essays, tributes, stories, and comments will delight readers and reveal more of the genius of a favorite author deeply engaged with her people and their customs.
In these pieces Welty put pen to paper for just causes: electing honorable officials, selling war bonds, and promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy; in reviews of sculpture, painting, dance, and photography; and in her candid remarks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Optimist's Daughter. Her sly humor emerges in ""Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!,"" a delightful parody of projects suggested in Popular Mechanics. Written between the 1930s and the 1990s, these fictions, essays, commemorations, reviews, and salutes reveal the sparkling imagination of a celebrated writer who continues her hold on a wide audience through these newfound pleasures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jackson
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4968-2107-2 (9781496821072)
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Eudora Welty (1909-2001) is author of many critically acclaimed novels and short stories.
Pearl Amelia McHaney, Decatur, Georgia, is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University. She has edited multiple volumes of Eudora Welty's work, including Eudora Welty as Photographer; A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews; and A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Pearl Amelia McHaney, Decatur, Georgia, is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University. She has edited multiple volumes of Eudora Welty's work, including Eudora Welty as Photographer; A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews; and A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs, all published by University Press of Mississippi.