Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316334 ISBN 13: 9780820316338
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. University of Georgia Press [Published date: 1994]. Hard cover, 213 pp. First Edition, with full number line. Very good in very good dust jacket. Maroon cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] Readers of Eudora Welty's stories often encounter a protective and domelike nighttime sky, the moon and constellations beckoning a character to venture beyond the familiar, visible world. This striking metaphor for the human need to seek out the unknown serves as an anchoring image in Daughter of the Swan, Gail L. Mortimer's study of Welty's lifelong inquiry into the nature and contexts of knowledge. Mortimer argues that Welty's views on epistemology and the elusiveness of certainty lie at the heart of this writer's subtle and revelatory work. Employing the psychoanalytic object-relations theories of Nancy Chodorow and Carol Gilligan, she reveals how Welty uses assumptions about relationships to shape her characters' consciousnesses. Mortimer also contrasts Welty's world with William Faulkner's; each elucidates the other's remarkably different ways of perceiving humanity, relationships, and approaches to the unknown. The author then turns to Welty's childhood to consider her evolving sense of what--and how--things can be known. Her childhood with adults created impressions of a benign, wondrous, orderly world. As Mortimer observes, Welty eventually replaced these impressions with the realization that adults frequently distort and withhold the truth. Welty's own family's conception of love as a kind of shield, and her resistance to this protection, finds its way into much of her fiction. For many Welty characters, this protective love becomes an obstacle to fuller understanding. Mortimer invokes two of the writer's most beguiling images, the circle and the labyrinth, to demonstrate that "the perceiver" who is "both an insider and an outsider" is best able to recognize and assimilate new knowledge. In The Golden Apples Welty contemplates the difficulty and fascination implicit in this quest for knowledge, given the ambiguous nature of what we know--and given our language's surfaces, and of masks, myths, and falsities to create benevolent illusions. Ultimately, Mortimer concludes, Welty comes to see the concept of protective love as a limited one and, in The Optimist's Daughter, for instance, she advocates instead the courage to face even the harshest realities. Recognizing the richness of Welty's artistry, Mortimer views her through the lens of various literary traditions, including that of Shelley and Yeats. The latter's poem "Among School Children," from which the title of Mortimer's study is borrowed, summons the image of the swan to reflect the solitary human soul in search of knowledge. In that same spirit of wonder and curiosity, Eudora Welty's fiction illuminates the conditions of that search.
Verlag: University of Georgia Press, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316334 ISBN 13: 9780820316338
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Verlag: Univeristy of North Carolina Press, 1987
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0820316334 ISBN 13: 9780820316338
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994
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Verlag: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1994
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Verlag: Eurospan, 1994
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Verlag: Eurospan, 1994
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Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR, 1994
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Zustand: New. Über den AutorGail L. Mortimer is a professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso.KlappentextrnrnIn this book the author explores a number of Welty s assumptions about the nature of knowledge and the.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book the author explores a number of Welty's assumptions about the nature of knowledge and the contexts in which it can take place, using as clues Welty's explicit treatment of the subject and the premises that come through in her use of imagery and her narrative choices.