Reynolds Price

Standard Name: Price, Reynolds

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Eudora Welty
This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1973.
Vande Kieft, Ruth M. Eudora Welty. Twayne Publishers, 1987.
8
Reynolds Price , in 1969, wrote that this was EW 's strongest, richest work. For me that is tantamount to saying that no...
Literary responses Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon was TM 's breakthrough novel. Reviewers' responses addressed her as a major figure. Reynolds Price in the New York Times Book Review welcomed the book as a wise and spacious
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, editors. Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Amistad, 1993.
12
yet...
Reception Eudora Welty
Like Austen 's Mansfield Park, Delta Wedding has been contradictorily read, some seeing its patriarchal estate as embodying utopia and some as dystopia. Reviewer Claudia Roth Pierpont argued in The New Yorker that Welty...
Textual Features Alice Munro
She delights in the surfaces and textures of her material and in the power to make the familiar or the ordinary into something strange through control of the deceptively linear narrative grammar of her stories...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

Price, Reynolds. “The Onlooker, Smiling: An Early Reading of ’The Optimist’s Daughter’”. Eudora Welty, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 2007, pp. 149-63.