Gothic traditions and narrative techniques in the fiction of Eudora Welty / Ruth D. Weston.
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. Specifically, Weston shows how Welty employs the theme of enclosure and escape and settings that convey a sense of mystery - gothic adaptations both - to...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[1994]
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| Series: | Southern literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Nothing so mundane as ghosts : plotting the gothic connection
- Settings between time and space : the gothic space as narrative technique
- Spatiality and the short story : the lyric technique
- Texts and contexts of the self : patterns of enclosure, exposure, and escape
- Character role reversals and confluent genres : the female hero
- Conclusion: Psyche, the great mother, and marriages of death : a structural coda for female liberations.