Willa Cather At The Modernist Crux

Author : Ann Moseley,John Joseph Murphy,Robert Thacker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496200648

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Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux by Ann Moseley,John Joseph Murphy,Robert Thacker Pdf

Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather's position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather's position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. The first section takes up Cather's beginnings with her late nineteenth-century cultural influences. The second section explores a range of discernible direct connections with contemporary artists (Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Blumenschein) and others who figured in the making of her texts. The third section focuses on The Song of the Lark, a novel that confirms Cather's shift westward and elaborates her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent availability of these letters has transformed Cather studies. Altogether, these essays detail Cather's shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions.

Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496200662

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Cather Studies, Volume 11 by Cather Studies Pdf

Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. The first section takes up Cather’s beginnings with her late nineteenth-century cultural influences. The second section explores a range of discernible direct connections with contemporary artists (Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Blumenschein) and others who figured in the making of her texts. The third section focuses on The Song of the Lark, a novel that confirms Cather’s shift westward and elaborates her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent availability of these letters has transformed Cather studies. Altogether, these essays detail Cather’s shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions.

Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496203243

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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 : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Willa Cather,David H. Porter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803276871

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Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather,David H. Porter Pdf

"The story of the eponymous Lucy Gayheart, a spirited young girl from Haverford, Nebraska, who leaves home to pursue a career in music"--

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593511817

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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Pdf

For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine A Penguin Vitae Edition In 1848, following the US's recent acquisition of the American Southwest from Mexico, the young bishop Father Jean Marie Latour receives instruction from the Vatican to oversee a newly created diocese in New Mexico. With his good friend Father Joseph Vaillant in tow, the pair travel through the unforgiving and seemingly-endless desert on mules in attempt to reclaim the region from corrupt priests who have taken mistresses, exhibited greed, and inflicted abuse and genocide on the Mexican and Indigenous residents. But as Father Latour spends more time in New Mexico with the people who have inhabited and influenced it for centuries, he begins to realize that the task he was sent to do is more complicated than anticipated. Rather than leave, though, Father Latour decides to stay and uphold his commitment to the Church and his faith, and gains an eye-opening perspective along the way. Written in 1927 at a time when Cather herself was expanding her own ideas of race, religion, and gender, Death Comes for the Archbishop remains a moving account of one man's physical and spiritual journey of understanding in naturalistic prose as sparse as the desert plains.

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496218148

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April Twilights (1903) by Willa Cather Pdf

Before she wrote her prose masterpieces, Willa Cather produced striking poems, which were collected in 1903 in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by nine years. In her introduction, distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this early edition of April Twilights restores what had been "an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the creative life of a great novelist." Among the thirty-seven selections are the much-anthologized "Grandmither, Think Not I Forget" and the highly evocative "Prairie Dawn." This new edition includes a new introduction by Robert Thacker, which provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307959317

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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Willa Cather Pdf

Time Magazine's 10 Top Nonfiction Books of the Year • Willa Cather’s letters—withheld from publication for more than six decades—are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection. The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist. They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny. A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America’s most admired writers.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338114884

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One of Ours by Willa Cather Pdf

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486849706

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The Professor's House by Willa Cather Pdf

This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920s Midwestern college town.

Author : Holly Blackford Humes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683931263

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Something Complete and Great by Holly Blackford Humes Pdf

This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its reception and legacy. The essays as a whole situate the novel at the cusp of the modern period, marking in myriad ways the novel’s transitional role between nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture. The first section “Translation” features writers that reflect on Cather’s curious devaluation of My Ántonia’s reception over time; translation issues in Germany, Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novel’s vision of Ántonia’s acculturation. The second section “Tradition” defines Cather’s relationship to modernism and regionalism through her career shifts and changes to the Introduction as well as her narrative technique in marginalizing violence and darkness to the edges of Jim’s consicousness. The third section “Transgender” analyzes Cather’s relationship to Hamlin Garland’s Life on the Prairie, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Neverland, and the work of Truman Capote, especially his gay protagoanist Joel Knox in Other Voices, Other Rooms. The fourth section “Transhuman” deploys work on hysteria to situate Cather’s vision of genderless desire and ecocritical lenses to understand Jim and nature. Finally the last section “Transition” discusses Lena Lingard’s presence as a New Woman and gift economies in the novel that underscore the community’s uneasy transition to twentieth-century capitalism. Gathered in the volume are an international group of scholars who demonstrate the novel’s centrality to women’s studies, American studies, queer studies, childhood studies, psychoanalysis, ecology, translation and reception, Marxism, narratology, and intertextuality.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000976838

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Willa Cather: Later Novels (LOA #49) by Willa Cather Pdf

Tells the stories of a frontier woman, a disillusioned professor, New Mexico's first bishop, early life in Quebec, an ambitious artist, and a Southern slaveowner.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : IND:30000111208819

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Modern Language Studies by Anonim Pdf