Gretlund, Jan Nordby

The late novels of Eudora Welty ( Book )
6 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,171 libraries worldwide
The Late Novels of Eudora Welty offers readings of two of the works considered to be Welty's most exciting both in innovative technique and postmodern existential statement. Fourteen new essays by internationally distinguished critics of Southern literature provide focused appraisals of Welty's last two novels: Losing Battles (1970), a provocative experiment in narration, and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist's Daughter (1972), a profound comment on our time.

Walker Percy : novelist and philosopher ( Book )
7 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 716 libraries worldwide

Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place by Jan Nordby Gretlund ( Book )
12 editions published between 1994 and 1997 in English and held by 553 libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty's fiction has come out of a particular place and is based on the writer's familiarity with its people. Jan Nordby Gretlund suggests that there is an obvious need, in today's literary climate, to consider the historical and cultural background for Eudora Welty's literary achievement. Guided by her aesthetics of place and with an eye on biographical, political, and cultural developments, he sees Welty as an individual whose fiction represents the collective experience in the South from the Depression to the present. Welty's realistic fiction is read as her aesthetic declaration of allegiance to the values of traditional Agrarianism. And her fictional portraits of city-life are seen as showing individual failure as a part of general social failure. In Jan Nordby Gretlund's analysis Eudora Welty's aesthetics of place is finally indistinguishable from the ethics of living in a place and finding one's identity in relation to it. In her fiction, existential decisions originate in the individual sense of place and community and have moral consequences. By focusing on her native place, remembering its past, identifying with it, and expressing its essence in fiction, Eudora Welty discovers and rediscovers her own self. The writer's imagination is bound to a place, which in the fiction becomes her "gateway to reality" and to a world of possibility.

Flannery O'Connor's radical reality ( Book )
8 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 480 libraries worldwide
Brings together a distinguished assembly of O'Connor scholars, four of whom numbered among the writer's friends, to assess the impact of the mid-century political, religious, and social milieu on novels and short stories that consistently attract interpretive attention.

The Southern state of mind ( Book )
4 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and held by 274 libraries worldwide

Realist of distances : Flannery O'Connor revisited ( Book )
7 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 179 libraries worldwide

Still in print : the Southern novel today ( Book )
3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 168 libraries worldwide

Frames of Southern mind : reflections on the stoic, bi-racial & existential South by Jan Nordby Gretlund ( Book )
7 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 167 libraries worldwide

Madison Jones' garden of innocence ( Book )
6 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 137 libraries worldwide

Southern landscapes / edited by Tony Badger, Walter Edgar, and Jan Nordby Gretlund ; in cooperation with Lothar Hönnighausen and Christoph Irmscher ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 35 libraries worldwide