“Making the jump”: Eudora Welty and the Ethics of Narrative

[M]orality as shown through human relationships is the whole heart of fiction...(Welty, Eye of the Story 148)Eudora Welty has never made a secret of the fact that the propelling force behind her writing is love. When, during the 1960s, she was accused of lacking social consciousness and a political...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Nissen, Axel
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Γλώσσα:Anglais
Έκδοση: Journal of the Short Story in English 2008
Διαθέσιμο Online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Περίληψη:[M]orality as shown through human relationships is the whole heart of fiction...(Welty, Eye of the Story 148)Eudora Welty has never made a secret of the fact that the propelling force behind her writing is love. When, during the 1960s, she was accused of lacking social consciousness and a political agenda, she responded by saying simply: “I think we need to write with love. Not in self-defense, not in hate, not in the mood of instruction, not in rebuttal, in any kind of militance, or in apol...