Cather Studies Volume 13

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496225177

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Cather Studies, Volume 13 by Cather Studies Pdf

Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896-1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively--and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: "A Death in the Desert," "The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case." During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh. Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped Cather's writing career and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there. With contributions from fourteen well-known Cather scholars, this collection of essays recognizes the importance Pittsburgh played in Cather's life and work and deepens our appreciation of how her art examines and elucidates the human experience.

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496224613

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Cather Studies, Volume 13 by Cather Studies Pdf

"Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that Willa Cather's writing career was shaped during the crucial years in Pittsburgh and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there"--

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803296992

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Cather Studies, Volume 11 by Cather Studies Pdf

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux -- Prologue: Gifts from the Museum: Catherian Epiphanies in Context -- Part 1. Beginnings -- 1. The Compatibility of Art and Religion for Willa Cather: From the Beginning -- 2. Thea in Wonderland: Willa Cather's Revision of the Alice Novels and the Gender Codes of the Western Frontier -- 3. Ántonia and Hiawatha: Spectacles of the Nation -- Part 2. Presences -- 4. Willa Cather, Howard Pyle, and "The Precious Message of Romance"--5. "Then a Great Man in American Art": Willa Cather's Frederic Remington -- 6. Willa Cather, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and "The Painting of Tomorrow" -- 7. From The Song of the Lark to Lucy Gayheart, and Die Walküre to Die Winterreise -- 8. The Trafficking of Mrs. Forrester: Prostitution and Willa Cather's A Lost Lady -- 9. The Outlandish Hands of Fred Demmler: Pittsburgh Prototypes in The Professor's House -- 10. Translating the Southwest: The 1940 French Edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Part 3. Articulation: The Song of the Lark -- 11. Elements of Modernism in The Song of the Lark -- 12. "The Earliest Sources of Gladness": Reading the Deep Map of Cather's Southwest -- 13. Re(con)ceiving Experience: Cognitive Science and Creativity in The Song of the Lark -- 14. Women and Vessels in The Song of the Lark and Shadows on the Rock -- Epilogue: The Difference That Letters Make: A Meditation on The Selected Letters of Willa Cather -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Guy J. J. Reynolds,Melissa J. J. Homestead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794545629

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Cather Studies by Guy J. J. Reynolds,Melissa J. J. Homestead Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791096260

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Willa Cather's My Ántonia by Harold Bloom Pdf

Willa Cather s My Antonia, a nostalgic novel about an earlier America, portrays the harmonies and disharmonies of the human world and the world of nature. This new edition gathers together some of the best criticism available on the text.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722525040

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728290903

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A Lost Lady by Willa Cather Pdf

‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with her husband, the ageing industrial magnate Captain Forrester, in the small town of Sweet Water. To the young, adoring narrator Niel Herbert, she is both bewitching and beautiful. The very definition of a lady. But Marrian Forrester is not what she seems and sparked by the death of her husband; her social decline lays bare her contradictions to the town. Published in 1923, Cather’s revered novel is an elegy to the pioneer west. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald acknowledged its influence on his famous work ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the character of Daisy Buchanan in particular. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913), ‘The Song of the Lark’ (1915), ‘My Ántonia’ (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success. In 1923, Cather gained widespread international recognition when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she graced the cover of Time Magazine. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944.

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803260113

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Cather Studies, Volume 7 by Cather Studies Pdf

Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. Not only are Cather’s own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object. Through textual study of her published novels and her behind-the-scenes campaign and publicity writing in service of her novels, the reader comes to understand the extent to which, despite her legendary claims and commitment to privacy, Willa Cather helped to orchestrate her own iconic status.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062410

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My Antonia by Willa Cather Pdf

My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.

Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826969

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The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as well as the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author of My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112101038153

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U.S. Government Research & Development Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Moseley,Sarah Cheney Watson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611475128

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Willa Cather and Aestheticism by Ann Moseley,Sarah Cheney Watson Pdf

This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.

Author : Anne L Kaufman,Richard H. Millington
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803277267

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Cather Studies, Volume 10 by Anne L Kaufman,Richard H. Millington Pdf

Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century—the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values—are addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather’s life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of her distinct historical moment; their ten colleagues offer a compelling set of case studies that articulate the manifold ways that Cather learned from, built upon, or resisted models provided by particular nineteenth-century writers, works, or artistic genres. Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041824151

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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather Pdf

"Shadows on the Rock" is a historical novel written by the American author Willa Cather. The book was published in 1931 and is set in the 17th century in colonial New France, specifically in Quebec City. The novel focuses on the lives of the early French settlers and the challenges they faced while establishing a life in the rugged wilderness of North America. The central character is Cécile Auclair, a young girl who, with her father, makes the difficult journey from France to Quebec to join her mother. The novel provides a vivid portrayal of daily life, relationships, and the interactions between the French settlers and the indigenous people of the region. "Shadows on the Rock" is known for its rich historical detail and evocative descriptions of the landscape and characters. Willa Cather's storytelling captures the enduring spirit and resilience of the early settlers in North America. The novel is celebrated for its historical accuracy and its exploration of the human experience in a challenging and often harsh environment.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:258477552

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On writing by Willa Cather Pdf