Eye That Is Language

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import challenging previous readings of Welty's fiction memoir and photographs in illuminating ways. The nine essays collected here offer scholars critics and avid readers a new understanding and enjoyment of Welty's work. The volume explores beloved stories in Welty's masterpiece <i>The Golden Apples </i> as well as A Curtain of Green Flowers for Marjorie Old Mr. Marblehall A Still Moment Livvie Circe Kin and <i>The Optimist's Daughter</i> <i>One Writer's Beginnings</i> and <i>One Time One Place</i>. Essays include Technique as Myth: The Structure of <i>The Golden Apples</i> (1979) A Blazing Butterfly: The Modernity of Eudora Welty (1987) and others written between 2000 and 2018. Together they reveal and explain Welty's brilliance for employing the particular to discover the universal. <p/> Pitavy-Souques who briefly lived in and often revisited the South met with Welty several times in her Jackson Mississippi home. Her readings draw on the visual arts European theorists and styles of modernism postmodernism surrealism as well as the baroque and the gothic. The included essays reflect Pitavy-Souques's European education her sophisticated understanding of intellectual theories and artistic movements abroad and her passion for the literary achievement of women of genius. <i>The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty </i>reveals the way in which Welty's narrative techniques broaden her work beyond southern myths and mysteries into a global perspective of humanity.