Gail L Mortimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail L Mortimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortimer |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIMER G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eudora Welty
Simply put, Eudora Welty is the greatest living writer of southern fiction. On the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, many of today's most important writers have come together to offer original essays: deeply-personal tributes to her influence on them upon first reading her work. Born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909, the first child of Christian and Chestina Andrews Welty, Eudora Welty spent a good part of her childhood with books and …
Katherine Anne Porter
Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf
Memory, Despair, and Welty's MacLain Twins
A narrative feature of Eudora Welty's fiction that has long been noted is her strategy of doubling or mirroring fictive characters and situations. While this phenomenon appears throughout her fiction, it is particularly evident in her short story sequence The Golden Apples and, within the collection, most explicitly in her characterization of the MacLain twins, Ran and Eugene. The Golden Apples, a series of seven related stories featuring residen…
Daughter of the Swan
Readers of Eudora Welty's stories often encounter a protective and domelike night-time sky, moon and constellations beckoning a character to venture beyond familiar, visible world. This striking metaphor for human need to seek out unknown serves as an anchoring image in Daughter of Swan, Gail L. Mortimer's study of Welty's lifelong inquiry into nature and contexts of knowledge. Mortimer argues that Welty's views on epistemiology and elusiveness o…
Daughter of the Swan
Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty
Milton, the Bible and Misogyny
Image and Myth in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter
ONE of the striking characteristics of Eudora Welty's fictiontaken as a whole-is the remarkable diversity of styles she summons from story to story.' Welty herself has said that when she begins a new story nothing she has written before is of much help to her, that each new story teaches her how to write itself.2 Yet when we turn to a novel such as The Optimist's Daughter (1972) directly after reading The Golden Apples (I949) or Losing Battles (1…
The smooth, suave shape of desire
Faulkner's Rhetoric of Loss
The Land before Her
Faulkner's Rhetoric of Loss
The Land before Her
The smooth, suave shape of desire
Image and Myth in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter
ONE of the striking characteristics of Eudora Welty's fictiontaken as a whole-is the remarkable diversity of styles she summons from story to story.' Welty herself has said that when she begins a new story nothing she has written before is of much help to her, that each new story teaches her how to write itself.2 Yet when we turn to a novel such as The Optimist's Daughter (1972) directly after reading The Golden Apples (I949) or Losing Battles (1…
Milton, the Bible and Misogyny
Daughter of the Swan
Readers of Eudora Welty's stories often encounter a protective and domelike night-time sky, moon and constellations beckoning a character to venture beyond familiar, visible world. This striking metaphor for human need to seek out unknown serves as an anchoring image in Daughter of Swan, Gail L. Mortimer's study of Welty's lifelong inquiry into nature and contexts of knowledge. Mortimer argues that Welty's views on epistemiology and elusiveness o…
Daughter of the Swan
Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf
Memory, Despair, and Welty's MacLain Twins
A narrative feature of Eudora Welty's fiction that has long been noted is her strategy of doubling or mirroring fictive characters and situations. While this phenomenon appears throughout her fiction, it is particularly evident in her short story sequence The Golden Apples and, within the collection, most explicitly in her characterization of the MacLain twins, Ran and Eugene. The Golden Apples, a series of seven related stories featuring residen…
Katherine Anne Porter
Eudora Welty
Simply put, Eudora Welty is the greatest living writer of southern fiction. On the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, many of today's most important writers have come together to offer original essays: deeply-personal tributes to her influence on them upon first reading her work. Born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909, the first child of Christian and Chestina Andrews Welty, Eudora Welty spent a good part of her childhood with books and …
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