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    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs
    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs
    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs
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    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs

    By Pearl Amelia McHaney

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    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty’s journalism, book reviews, letters, essays, autobiography, and photographs. Each chapter focuses on one genre, filling in gaps left by previous books. With keen skills of observation, finely tuned senses, intellect, wit, awareness of audience, and modesty, Welty applied her genius in all that she did, holding a tough line on truth, breaking through “the veil of indifference to each other’s presence, each other’s wonder, each other’s plight.”

    McHaney’s study brings critical attention to the under-evaluated genres of Welty’s work and discusses the purposeful use of arguments, examples, and styles, demonstrating that Welty pursued her craft to a high standard across genres with a greater awareness of context than she admitted in her numerous interviews. Welty consistently dared new styles, new audiences, and new publishing venues in order to express her ideas to their fullest. It is “serious daring,” as she wrote in One Writer’s Beginnings, that makes for great writing. In “Place in Fiction,” Welty asks, “How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk—experiment—is a considerable part of the joy of doing.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi
    Release dateJul 17, 2014
    ISBN9781626744622
    A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs
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    Pearl Amelia McHaney

    Pearl Amelia McHaney is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature Emerita at Georgia State University and a recipient of the Eudora Welty Society Phoenix Award for outstanding achievement in Welty studies. She is author of A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photography and editor of Eudora Welty as Photographer, Occasions: Selected Writings by Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty: The Contemporary Reviews, and A Writer’s Eye: Collected Reviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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      I thoroughly enjoy Welty's black-and-white photography: the people, the architecture, sometimes the oddball thing, and how she plays with lighting and texture, among other things.

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