- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Invitations to Welty’s “Mountain of Meaning”
- Some Notes on Teaching Welty
- Introductions to Welty
- Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters
- How She Wrote and How We Read
- Teaching Welty’s Narrative Strategies in <i>Delta Wedding</i>
- II New Perspectives on Welty and the US South
- Teaching Welty’s <i>A Curtain of Green</i> in an American Studies Freshman Seminar
- Matters of Life and Death
- Indigenizing Welty
- Taking <i>The Wide Net</i> to the Waters of <i>La Frontera</i> along Eudora Welty’s Natchez Trace
- III “Lifting the Veil”: Teaching Welty and African American Identity
- Teaching “A Curtain” in the Thick of Things
- The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature
- “Powerhouse” and the Challenge of African American Representation
- “We Must Have Your History, You Know”
- IV “Learning to See”: Bodies in Welty’s Texts
- Picturing Difference and Disability in Our Classrooms
- Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Loch of the Rape
- Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- V Worldly Welty: International and Transcultural Contexts
- Teaching Welty and/in Modernism
- Post Southern and International
- Umbrellas and Bottles
- Transcontinental Welty
- VI Teaching Welty in Our Writing Classrooms
- Finding the Freshman Voice
- “He Going to Last”
- How I Teach “Livvie” in Welty’s Home County
- “Something Beautiful, Something Frightening”
- “A Worn Path” in the Creative Writing Classroom
- VII Casting Wider Nets: New Interdisciplinary Contexts for Teaching Welty
- Teaching Welty in Dialogue with Other Artists in a Social Justice Course
- Using “A Worn Path” to Explore Contemporary Health Disparities in a Service-Learning Course
- Folk and Fairy Tales, Opera, and YouTube
- Teaching Welty to Future Teachers
- Finding Hope
- Resources for Teachers and Students
- About the Contributors
- Index
Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- Chapter:
- (p.122) Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- Source:
- Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
- Author(s):
Annette Trefzer
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This essay suggests how literary theory can help students confront the textual complexity and subtlety of Welty’s short stories, and how the stories, in turn, can offer a range of questions and problems for reexamination as they highlight the blind spots of various theoretical “lenses.” Students begin with the formalist method of “close reading” and Welty’s “A Piece of News,” followed by theories of gender and sexuality paired with “A Curtain of Green,” and “Petrified Man” and end up with disability studies as illustrated in Welty’s first short story collection. The essay shows with examples from Welty’s work the intersections where theory meets practical criticism and where fiction articulates positions that help students understand theory in turn.
Keywords: Literary theory, Disability studies, Gender and sexuality, Formalism, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Invitations to Welty’s “Mountain of Meaning”
- Some Notes on Teaching Welty
- Introductions to Welty
- Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters
- How She Wrote and How We Read
- Teaching Welty’s Narrative Strategies in <i>Delta Wedding</i>
- II New Perspectives on Welty and the US South
- Teaching Welty’s <i>A Curtain of Green</i> in an American Studies Freshman Seminar
- Matters of Life and Death
- Indigenizing Welty
- Taking <i>The Wide Net</i> to the Waters of <i>La Frontera</i> along Eudora Welty’s Natchez Trace
- III “Lifting the Veil”: Teaching Welty and African American Identity
- Teaching “A Curtain” in the Thick of Things
- The Matter of Black Lives in American Literature
- “Powerhouse” and the Challenge of African American Representation
- “We Must Have Your History, You Know”
- IV “Learning to See”: Bodies in Welty’s Texts
- Picturing Difference and Disability in Our Classrooms
- Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Loch of the Rape
- Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom
- V Worldly Welty: International and Transcultural Contexts
- Teaching Welty and/in Modernism
- Post Southern and International
- Umbrellas and Bottles
- Transcontinental Welty
- VI Teaching Welty in Our Writing Classrooms
- Finding the Freshman Voice
- “He Going to Last”
- How I Teach “Livvie” in Welty’s Home County
- “Something Beautiful, Something Frightening”
- “A Worn Path” in the Creative Writing Classroom
- VII Casting Wider Nets: New Interdisciplinary Contexts for Teaching Welty
- Teaching Welty in Dialogue with Other Artists in a Social Justice Course
- Using “A Worn Path” to Explore Contemporary Health Disparities in a Service-Learning Course
- Folk and Fairy Tales, Opera, and YouTube
- Teaching Welty to Future Teachers
- Finding Hope
- Resources for Teachers and Students
- About the Contributors
- Index
