
Occasions
Selected Writings
Eudora Welty(Author)
Pearl Amelia McHaney(Editor)
University Press of Mississippi
Published on 30. March 2009
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-60473-264-1 (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, promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy as well as 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, promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy as well as 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
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60473-264-1 (9781604732641)
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Persons
Eudora Welty is the award-winning author of many novels and story collections, including ,Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, The Golden Apples and A Curtain of Green and Other Stories.|Pearl Amelia McHaney is associate professor of English at Georgia State University and editor of several books on Eudora Welty, including Eudora Welty: Contemporary Reviews, Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections upon First Reading Welty, and A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews by Eudora Welty.