Introduction -- The real thing / J. Harris -- Eudora Welty / J.A. Allen -- Time in the fiction of Eudora Welty / D.J. Neault -- The poetics of prose / A.J. Griffith -- Psychic distances in A curtain of green / B. Fialkowski -- Eudora Welty's The robber bridegroom and old Southwest humor / C.E. Davis -- Metronome and music / D. Messerli -- Looking down from a high place / M.E. Bradford -- Circling-in / W. McMillen -- Pattern and vision in The optimist's daughter / J.F. Desmond.