- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Levee Building and the Settlement of the Yazoo Basin
- From Enchantment to Disillusionment
- Some Mississippi Views of American Federalism, 1817–1900
- “Harmony with the Dead”
- Pat Harrison and the Social Security Act of 1935
- The Southern Belle as an Antebellum Ideal
- A Sense of Place and the Americanization of Mississippi
- Cable’s The Grandissimes
- Southern Writers
- “Tough Times”
- The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subverting History
- On Welty’s Use of Allusion
- Natchez and Richard Wright in Southern American Literature
- The Mississippi Frontier in Faulkner’s Fiction and in Fact
- Unlinking Race and Gender
-
“When Is an Ocean not an Ocean?” Geographies of the Atlantic World
1 - The Southern Way of Death
- Africa and the American South
- Harriet Jacobs at Home in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Contributors
- Index
On Welty’s Use of Allusion
On Welty’s Use of Allusion
Expectations and Their Revision in “The Wide Net,” The Robber Bridegroom, and “At The Landing”
- Chapter:
- (p.182) (p.183) On Welty’s Use of Allusion
- Source:
- The Past Is Not Dead
- Author(s):
Harriet Pollack
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter explores Eudora Welty’s use of allusions in her work. It first maps out the process characteristically initiated by Welty’s allusions, and then examines the specific uses she makes of that process in three allusive fictions: “The Wide Net,” The Robber Bridegroom, and its story double, “At The Landing”.
Keywords: Eudora Welty, allusions, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, At The Landing
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Levee Building and the Settlement of the Yazoo Basin
- From Enchantment to Disillusionment
- Some Mississippi Views of American Federalism, 1817–1900
- “Harmony with the Dead”
- Pat Harrison and the Social Security Act of 1935
- The Southern Belle as an Antebellum Ideal
- A Sense of Place and the Americanization of Mississippi
- Cable’s The Grandissimes
- Southern Writers
- “Tough Times”
- The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subverting History
- On Welty’s Use of Allusion
- Natchez and Richard Wright in Southern American Literature
- The Mississippi Frontier in Faulkner’s Fiction and in Fact
- Unlinking Race and Gender
-
“When Is an Ocean not an Ocean?” Geographies of the Atlantic World
1 - The Southern Way of Death
- Africa and the American South
- Harriet Jacobs at Home in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Contributors
- Index
