Strange Felicity: Eudora Welty's Subtexts on Fiction and Society

by Howard Garrett and Naoko F. Thornton

Thornton identifies two kinds of metafictions in Welty's works that testify to the author's confidence in the power of that particular form of fiction to achieve the results she desires. The first deals with literary issues such as language, fiction, readership, and authorship as they are embodied in the particular fiction. The other addresses the social subtexts, which carry the author's social message, or observations, buried beneath the surface...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275980480
• ISBN13: 9780275980481
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"