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In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cathers fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches - derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between art and religion - this collection will increase our understanding of Cathers aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work...
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"On the Divide analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself, in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional activities and the very different private self she shared only with friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David Porter provides new insight into the extent - and direction - of her control. He also considers the contrasting...
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"Axes traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962. When those texts are juxtaposed and examined carefully, the two writers seem intensely conscious of, and responsive to, each other's work. In fact, both at some point appear to have caricatured or parodied the other in print. Judging by the texts they left behind, they titillated, offended, exhilarated, and - especially -...
4) Willa Cather
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Collects critical essays on the life, influences, and works of Willa Cather, including selections by Melissa Ryan, David Stouck, Susan J. Rosowski, Nicholas Birns, and others.
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A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging. -- Publishers Description.
"This first publication of the letters of one of America's most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event....
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This book presents new interpretive approaches to Willa Cather based on materials now available in the Drew University Cather Collection. The scholars writing here came from many states to begin mapping unexplored territory. The purpose of this volume is to suggest the work left to do on Willa Cather, and the diverse directions in which scholars now must travel.
Steven Shively surveys all we know about Cather's fondness of the three Menuhin child...
18) Willa Cather
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Essays discussing My Antonia, The Professor's House, and A Lost Lady, examine Cather's themes and style, and are accompanied by a brief chronology of her life.
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This is a work about the ways in which Willa Cather transforms secular space into sacred places in her fiction. She uses landscape not merely as a backdrop against which her characters struggle, but as a character in and of itself - a dynamic presence. For her, landscape is like consciousness, surrounding us always. In her novels, Cather describes the ways in which places allow people to understand their authentic selves. Cather's characters are intricately...
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