Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight
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Description
"Eudora Welty's ingenious play with readers' expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime. Put another way, Welty often creates her stories' secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions."--Publisher description.
ISBN
1496842715, 9781496842718, 9781496842701, 1496842707
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
City
Jackson
Keywords
Eudora, Detective, Mystery, Literary Criticism
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Recommended Citation
Agner, Jacob and Pollack, Harriet, "Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight" (2023). Faculty Books. 262.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/262