The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather

Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5215279373

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Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107083950

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel by Joshua L. Miller Pdf

This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

Author : Alan Blackstock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611479805

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Willa Cather and E. M. Forster by Alan Blackstock Pdf

Though both Willa Cather and E. M. Forster have been alternately praised as progressives and criticized as conservatives, the novels of both writers embody the tenets of liberal humanism, while at the same time reflecting the tensions associated with modernism (though both of these terms have come under intense critical scrutiny in recent years.) And while a few critics have offered brief comparisons of individual works or particular tendencies of Cather and Forster, none has provided the systematic comparative analysis of the relationship between liberal humanist/modernist tensions and the search for transcendence in their work that this book offers. The principal aims of the present study are to locate the imagined alternatives to the "lamentable present" embodied in the novels of both writers and to explore how literature and the arts might assist in transcending the deficiencies and disunities of life in the modern era.

Author : Sarah Cheney Watson,Ann Moseley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475111

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

In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's 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 Cather's aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.

Author : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052182995X

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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism by Walter Kalaidjian Pdf

Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521854535

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr Pdf

An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.

Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826570

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire by Kirk Freudenburg Pdf

Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.

Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107013131

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The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish Pdf

This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803230255

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Willa Cather by Cather Studies Pdf

"The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds; for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence. Cather's intellectual intercourse between the Old and the New World was a two-way street, moving both people and cultural mores between the two. But her worlds extended far beyond France, or even geographical locations. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences---theological, aesthetic, even gastronomical---and examines her as tourist and traveler cautiously yet assiduoulsy exploring a diverse range of palces, ethnicities, and professions."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Daryl W. Palmer
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948908283

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Becoming Willa Cather by Daryl W. Palmer Pdf

From the girl in Red Cloud who oversaw the construction of a miniature town called Sandy Point in her backyard, to the New Woman on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse in Lincoln newspapers, to the aspiring novelist in New York City, committed to creation and career, Daryl W. Palmer’s groundbreaking literary biography offers a provocative new look at Willa Cather’s evolution as a writer. Willa Cather has long been admired for O Pioneers! (1913), Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918)—the “prairie novels” about the lives of early Nebraska pioneers that launched her career. Thanks in part to these masterpieces, she is often viewed as a representative of pioneer life on the Great Plains, a controversial innovator in American modernism, and a compelling figure in the literary history of LGBTQ America. A century later, scholars acknowledge Cather’s place in the canon of American literature and continue to explore her relationship with the West. Drawing on original archival research and paying unprecedented attention to Cather’s early short stories, Palmer demonstrates that the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than critics and scholars thought. Readers will encounter a surprisingly bold young author whose youth in Nebraska served as a kind of laboratory for her future writing career. Becoming Willa Cather changes the way we think about Cather, a brilliant and ambitious author who embraced experimentation in life and art, intent on reimagining the American West.

Author : Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521537827

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The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire by Rosemary Lloyd Pdf

Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.

Author : Stephen Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521834554

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The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee by Stephen Bottoms Pdf

Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.

Author : Kelsey Squire
Publisher : Literary Criticism in Perspect
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139979

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Willa Cather by Kelsey Squire Pdf

A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.