A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Eudora Welty's "A Memory" and the Modem Literary Epiphany.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001; Memory, A (Short story); Epiphanies; Modernism (Literature); Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, A (Book : Joyce); Joyce, James, 1882-1941

The article talks about Eudora Welty's short story "A Memory" that depicts a daydreaming adolescent girl's struggle to reconstruct her memory of first love on a noisy beach thus depicting the development of an artist in terms of literary epiphany. It explores the authors imagination of literary modernism and it's relation with Romantic epiphany. Welty's work has been compared with "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce due to the recurring epiphanies in the works.