The heart of the story : Eudora Welty's short fiction

Discusses the short stories of Eudora Welty, including the portrayal of heroines and women artists, misogyny in the tragic stories, women's comedy, and the place of her work within American women's literature The Anxieties Of Authorship: Heroines And Women Artists In A Curtain Of Green -- Misogyny And The Medusa's Gaze: Welty's Tragic Stories -- Rigidity And Rebirth Eudora Welty And Women's Comedy -- Sibyls: Eudora Welty And American Women's Literature. Peter Schmidt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 291-305) And Index.

New scholarly vistas for the study of Welty's stories. Winner of the 1991 Eudora Welty Prize