JOURNAL ARTICLE

Parting the Curtain: Modernism, Empathy, and Epiphany in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples.

  • Published In: Mississippi Quarterly, 2025, v. 77, n. 1. P. 27 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: McCright, Grace Perry 3 of 3

Abstract

In this essay, I read Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples in the context of twentieth-century anxieties surrounding psychology and empathy. Engaging with these discourses deepens understanding of Welty and modernism by situating her work within modernist anxieties about the mind of the Other and the possibility of empathy. Building upon Meghan Marie Hammond's work on modernism and empathy and expanding the scope of her argument to include a writer of the US South, my reading challenges monolithic understandings of modernism as concerned only with alienated individuals and the loss of community in urban spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Mississippi Quarterly. 2025/01, Vol. 77, Issue 1, p27
  • Document Type:Literary Criticism
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0026-637X
  • DOI:10.1353/mss.2025.a953921
  • Accession Number:183570003
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