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Article: The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction.
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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Peter Schmidt's The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction provides a happy confluence (to use a word Eudora Welty loves) of lucid analysis, painstaking research, theoretical savvy, and personal engagement. Like Welty's fiction, it is rich, generous, and revealing. In Schmidt's reading, Welty's stories concern themselves deeply with women's desires for independence and self-expression and with the cultural conditions that restrict such freedom.
Feminist theory informs his readings, alerting him to the many ways in which men and women behave according to socially constructed gender roles rather than according to "timeless" or "natural" impulses, and ...