{"product_id":"9781617036743","title":"Eudora Welty and Surrealism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEudora Welty and Surrealism\u003c\/i\u003e surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler to New York City, where the surrealists exhibited, and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's premier venue for surrealist art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of readings that collectively examine \u003ci\u003eA Curtain of Green and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wide Net and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDelta Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Apples\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the book reveals how surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScattered throughout her stories are allusions to personalities allied with the movement in the United States, including figures such as Salvador Dalí, Elsa Schiaparelli, Caresse Crosby, Wallace Simpson, Cecil Beaton, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Henri Ford. Individuals such as these and others whom surrealism seduced often lead unorthodox and controversial lives that made them natural targets for moral opprobrium. Eschewing such parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom of surrealism to develop modernized depictions of the South, a literary strategy that revealed not only cultural farsightedness but great artistic daring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113443868912,"sku":"9781617036743","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617036743_p0.jpg?v=1763849747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617036743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}