Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
English
Date of Award
5-2006
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Thomas A. Holmes
Committee Members
Michael A. Cody, Michael Smith
Abstract
Eudora Welty's brief photographic career offers valuable insight into the development of her literary voice. She discovers many of the distinguishing characters of her fiction during the 1930s while traveling through Mississippi writing articles for the Works Progress Administration and taking pictures of the people and places she encountered. Analyzing the connections between her first collection of photographs, One Time, One Place: Mississippi during the Depression: A Snapshot Album, and her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories, reveals the writer's sympathetic attitude towards her characters, the prominence of place in her fiction, and her use of time in the telling of a story.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Ballentine, Brandon Clarke, "The Narrative Lens: Understanding Eudora Welty's Fiction through Her Photography." (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2199. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2199
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
Included in
Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons, Photography Commons