Obscure Destinies

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041823635

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Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather Pdf

"Obscure Destinies" is a collection of three interconnected short stories written by American author Willa Cather, first published in 1932. The stories in this collection are known for their vivid depictions of life on the American frontier and the people who inhabit it. The three stories included in "Obscure Destinies" are "Neighbour Rosicky," "Old Mrs. Harris," and "Two Friends." Each story explores the lives and struggles of ordinary people living in the rural Midwest, and they focus on themes such as family, community, and the passage of time. Cather's writing is praised for its evocative and realistic portrayal of the American heartland. "Obscure Destinies" showcases Cather's talent for creating memorable characters and capturing the essence of everyday life in the early 20th century. The collection is celebrated for its insight into the human condition and the enduring spirit of the American frontier.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803214308

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Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather Pdf

The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destinies announced ?Three New Stories of the West,? heralding Willa Cather?s return to what many thought of as ?her? territory?the Great Plains. These three stories, ?Neighbour Rosicky,? ?Old Mrs. Harris,? and ?Two Friends,? reflected her return to the well of memory that had inspired the books that made her reputation. The WillaøCather Scholarly Edition presents for the first time the three stories in their historical and biographical context, with an interpretive historical essay and detailed explanatory notes. The textual essay and apparatus establish the definitive text and trace Cather?s changes through newly discovered prepublication versions.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519287097

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Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather Pdf

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Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : John Joseph Murphy,Merrill Maguire Skaggs
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641350

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Willa Cather by John Joseph Murphy,Merrill Maguire Skaggs Pdf

This book presents interprative approaches to Willa Cather based on materials available in the Drew University Cather Collection. The scholars suggest the work left to do on Willa Cather, and the diverse directions in which scholars now must travel.

Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9780817320140

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Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout Pdf

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism

Author : Willa Sibert Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:832195456

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Obscure Destinies and Literary Encounters by Willa Sibert Cather Pdf

Author : David H. Porter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803219083

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On the Divide by David H. Porter Pdf

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 CatherOCOs correspondence and the little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David Porter provides new insight into the extentOCoand directionOCoof her control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on the authorOCOs emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to explore the many ways in which these OC dividesOCO in CatherOCOs life found expression in her writing. Extending from CatherOCOs early stories to her final novel, PorterOCOs book documents the degree to which CatherOCOs understanding of her own different and often conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles, enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex, and so profoundly human.

Author : Merrill Maguire Skaggs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803256477

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Axes by Merrill Maguire Skaggs Pdf

Traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962.

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead, [1898] (1908 printing)
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Fate and fatalism
ISBN : UOM:39015013000727

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Wisdom and Destiny by Maurice Maeterlinck Pdf

Author : Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496216908

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Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp Pdf

Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and Cather’s O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Yet despite their perennial popularity and their status as major American novelists, Wharton (1862–1937) and Cather (1873–1947) have rarely been studied together. Indeed, critics and scholars seem to have conspired to keep them at a distance: Wharton is seen as “our literary aristocrat,” an author who chronicles the lives of the East Coast, Europe-bound elite, while Cather is considered a prairie populist who describes the lives of rugged western pioneers. These depictions, though partially valid, nonetheless rely on oversimplifications and neglect the striking and important ways the works of these two authors intersect. The first comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather in thirty years, this book combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal Wharton’s and Cather’s parallel experiences of dislocation, their relationship to each other as writers, and the profound similarities in their theories of fiction. Julie Olin-Ammentorp provides a new assessment of the affinities between Wharton and Cather by exploring the importance of literary and geographic place in their lives and works, including the role of New York City, the American West, France, and travel. In doing so she reveals the two authors’ shared concern about the culture of place and the place of culture in the United States.

Author : Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803264356

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Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination by Susan J. Rosowski Pdf

The wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cather?s unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cather?s close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Cather?s novels and short stories are deeply grounded in place, literary critics are only now considering how place functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues through her writing. ø These essays reintroduce us to a Cather who is profoundly identified with the places that shaped her and that she wrote about: Glen A. Love offers an interdisciplinary reading of The Professor?s House that is scientifically oriented; Joseph Urgo argues that My ?ntonia models a preservationist aesthetic in which landscape and memory are inextricably entangled; Thomas J. Lyon posits that Cather had a living sense of the biotic community and used nature as the standard of excellence for human endeavors; and Jan Goggans considers the ways that My ?ntonia shifts from nativism toward a ?flexible notion of place-based community.?

Author : Richard Giannone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803270992

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Music in Willa Cather's Fiction by Richard Giannone Pdf

Music is everywhere in Willa Cather's fiction: as a subject, in the background, slyly commenting on the action, connecting characters to a distant world, or revealing their interior worlds. Not merely incidental or ornamental, though, music is intrinsic to Cather's work, a distinctive quality of her creation and expression, and it is in this light that Richard Giannone considers Cather's art. Music in Willa Cather's Fiction is the definitive study of its subject. The first work to examine the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather's narratives, Giannone's book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author's artistic sensibility, the evolution of her art, and her total achievement. ø Progressing chronologically, Giannone shows how Cather's view and use of music changed over time. From what her early journalistic pieces on music and musicians reveal about her attitude and anticipate in her later work, Giannone moves to Cather's early stories to identify the trend of some of her artistic choices, the direction of her stylistic development, and the complication of her moral interest as these are manifested in musical references. In her novels and later stories, he emphasizes the contribution of music to the individual work, as well as the allusions and connections that sound throughout her oeuvre.

Author : Tracy Daugherty
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806190525

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The Land and the Days by Tracy Daugherty Pdf

In “Cotton County,” the first of the dual memoirs in The Land and the Days, acclaimed author Tracy Daugherty describes the forces that shape us: the “rituals of our regions” and the family and friends who animate our lives and memories. Combining reminiscence, history, and meditation, Daugherty retraces his childhood in Texas and Oklahoma, where he first encountered the realities of politics, race, and class. As a child in the early 1960s, Daugherty lived with his parents and sister in West Texas. And yet from a young age, in the author’s recounting, he was just as much at home in the small town of Walters, Oklahoma, where his grandparents lived and where he and his family often visited. A cattle and oil town just a few miles north of the Red River, Walters seemingly belonged to another realm. In sensory detail, Daugherty evokes the old-fashioned atmosphere of his grandparents’ home, the “tastes, smells, and textures: fried okra, mothballs, cotton batting—radiators and ancient typewriters.” These were things, he explains, that he experienced only in Oklahoma. The “Unearthly Archives,” the second of Daugherty’s memoirs, expands the realistic accounts of the first narrative, providing a meditation on the meaning of grief. Daugherty demonstrates his curiosity and indefatigable quest for understanding and closure by examining his life-long store of literary readings, as well as the music he loves, to discover the true value of a life dedicated to art. Whereas the first narrative explores daily family life, setting up what will be the huge loss of his parents, the second examines questions of death, grief, creativity, and the meaning of memory. As he mourns the loss of his parents, Daugherty reckons with his own mortality and finds himself confronting such fundamental questions as, How does individual consciousness develop? What can music, art, and literature teach us about life’s experiences? And finally, Is there a soul? The Land and the Days addresses these eternal questions with uncommon honesty and grace.

Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817314361

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Willa Cather and Material Culture by Janis P. Stout Pdf

A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship. Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times. The contributors explore both the objects among which Cather lived and the objects that appear in her writings, as well as the commercial constraints of the publishing industry in which her art was made and marketed. Essays address her relationship to quilts both personally and as symbols in her work; her contributions to domestic magazines such as Home Monthly and Woman's Home Companion; the problematic nature of Hollywood productions of her work; and her efforts and successes as a businesswoman. By establishing the centrality of material matters to her writing, these essays contribute to the reclaiming of Cather as a modernist and highlight the significance of material culture, in general, to the study of American literature.