Adria Bernardi: Visual Image and Noise in Eudora Welty (January 2007)

The movement between the inner and the outer, and the primacy of the visual image, are central to the poetics of Eudora Welty, Adria Bernardi argues.  Bernardi looks at essays and three stories by Welty to consider how visual images can function at moments of transition, and in particular moments of transition into different ways of seeing; she suggests that such images can offer the writer opportunities to move into an alternative point of view or level of consciousness.