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Mississippi Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-230

  Nissen, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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References (36)

1. Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966; New York: Anchor Books, 1990), p. 275
2. Welty's friend Lehman Engel, qtd. in Ann Waldron, Eudora: A Writer's Life (New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 60
3. Ann Waldron's skeleton biography names names but barely scratches the surface. See Eudora, pp. 56-57
4. I take the expression "essential self" from Harriet Pollack, "Words Between Strangers: On Welty, Her Style, and Her Audience," in Welty: A Life in Literature, ed. Albert J. Devlin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987), pp. 73-75
5. "Review-Essay: Welty Studies at the Millennium," Mississippi Quarterly, 53 (2000), 317-323
6. Eudora Welty, "The Hitch-Hikers," The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983), p. 63
7. Paul Binding, The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer (London: Virago, 1994), p. 72
8. Alfred Appel, Jr., A Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965), p. 35
9. James Walter, "The Fate of the Story Teller in Eudora Welty's 'The Hitch-Hikers,'" South Central Review, 2 (1985), 63
10. Peter Schmidt, The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991), p. 197
11. Jan Nordby Gretlund, "The Terrible and the Marvelous: Eudora Welty's Chekhov," in Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, ed. Dawn Trouard (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989), p. 115
12. Ruth M. Vande Kieft, Eudora Welty, rev. ed. (New York: Twayne, 1987), p. 24
13. Michael Kreyling, "Modernism in Welty's A Curtain of Green and Other Stories," Southern Quarterly, 20 (1982), 42
14. Michael Kreyling, Understanding Eudora Welty (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), p. 32
15. See Walter, p. 63
16. The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man (1923; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1975), p. 87
17. Eudora Welty, The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews (New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 114
18. "Eudora Welty," College English, 14 (1952), 71
19. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), p. 65
20. Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth (London: Plexus, 1984), p. 7
21. "The Last Rose of Mount Salus: A Study of Narrative Strategies in The Optimist's Daughter," in The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, ed. Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), p. 123
22. See, for example, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., "New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter," Mississippi Quarterly, 44 (1991), 429-441
23. and Ruth D. Weston, Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press), 1994
24. Eudora Welty, The Optimistic Daughter (1972; New York: Vintage International, 1990), p. 37
25. Some previous analyses of the novel that discuss Welty's puns are Gail L. Mortimer, "Image and Myth in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter," American Literature, 62 (1990), 617-633
26. Brinkmeyer; and Patrick Samway, S. J., "Eudora Welty's Indirect Critique of The Optimist's Daughter," in Gretlund and Westarp, pp. 107-121
27. "Roles Models" (1972), in Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality, ed. David Bergman (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), p. 46
28. Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), p. 158
29. "The Role of Family in Delta Wedding, Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter," in Eudora Welty: Critical Essays, ed. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979), p. 129
30. Thomas H. Landess, "The Function of Taste in the Fiction of Eudora Welty," Mississippi Quarterly, 26 (Fall 1973), 543
31. Kreyling, Eudora Welty's Achievement, p. 156
32. Brinkmeyer, pp. 429-41
33. Danielle Fuller, "'Making a Scene': Some Thoughts on Female Sexuality and Marriage in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Optimist's Daughter," Mississippi Quarterly, 48 (1995), 291-318; and Schmidt, pp. 689-714
34. Qtd. in Jack Babuscio, "Camp and the Gay Sensibility" (1977), in Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality, ed. David Bergman (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), p. 29
35. Scott Long, "The Loneliness of Camp" (1989), in Bergman, p. 49
36. "Pattern and Vision in The Optimist's Daughter," in A Still Moment: Essays on the Art of Eudora Welty, ed. John F. Desmond (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978), p. 126