Willa Cather In Europe

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803263333

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Willa Cather in Europe by Willa Cather Pdf

Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her the world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902 journey, coming ten years before she made her literary mark with O Pioneers!, was unrepeatable, special in its effects on her artistic development. After disembarking at Liverpool, she toured the Shropshire country, got swallowed up by London, and then crossed the Channel to other skies—to Rouen, Paris, and the Riviera. These fourteen travel articles, written for a newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska, and eventually collected and published in book form in 1956, are striking for first impressions colored by a future novelist's feeling for history and for beauty in unexpected forms.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459132199

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Willa Cather in Europe by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Helen May Dennis
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018359104

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Willa Cather and European Cultural Influences by Helen May Dennis Pdf

These essays open up debates about a number of Cather's texts, and suggest her stature as an American author much influenced by European culture and European immigrant culture in the US.

Author : Sarah Cheney Watson,Ann Moseley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : John Joseph Murphy,Merrill Maguire Skaggs
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101973936

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Willa Cather by Hermione Lee Pdf

Hermione Lee’s provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia, a woman whose life was riddled with the tension between masculine and feminine, and a writer whose naturalness of style disguised exquisite artistry. By exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of much of Cather’s life and work, Lee locates new layers of meaning and places her firmly at the forefront of the modern literary tradition that was taking shape in her time.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Farm life
ISBN : 9781442934375

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One of Ours by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Ann Moseley,John Joseph Murphy,Robert Thacker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803263260

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Willa Cather in Person by Willa Cather Pdf

Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813933609

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Willa Cather by Janis P. Stout Pdf

Previous biographies of Willa Cather have either recycled the traditional view of a writer detached from social issues whose work supported a wholesome view of a vanished America, or they have focused solely on revelations about her private life. Challenging these narrow interpretations, Janis P. Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. A product of the South--she was born in Virginia--Cather went west with her family at an early age, a participant in the aspirations of Manifest Destiny. Known for her celebrations of immigrants on the prairie, she in fact shared many of the ethnic suspicions of her contemporaries. Loved by a popular audience for her pieties of family and religion, she was in her youth a freethinker who resisted traditional patterns for women's lives, cutting her hair like a boy's and dressing in men's clothing. Seen by critics since the 1930s as a practitioner of an escapist formalism, she was, in Stout's view, profoundly ambivalent about most of the important questions she faced. Cather structured her writing to control her uncertainty and project a serenity she did not in fact feel. Cather has at times been viewed as a writer preoccupied with the past whose literary project had little to do with the intellectual currents of her time. On the contrary, Stout argues, Cather was a full participant in the doubts and conflicts of twentieth-century modernity. Only in recoil from her distress at these conflicts did she turn to overt celebrations of the past and construct a retiring, crotchety persona. The Cather that emerges from Stout's treatment is a modernist conservative in the mold of T. S. Eliot, though more responsive to her time and simultaneously less assured in her pronouncements. Cather's sexuality, too, is more complicated in Stout's version than previous biographers have allowed. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World presents a woman and an artist who fully exemplifies the ambivalence, the foreboding, and above all the complexity that we associate with the twentieth-century mind.

Author : G. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230376243

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Willa Cather in Context by G. Reynolds Pdf

Drawing on a range of material from archives in the USA and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. Reynolds explores 'progressivism', 'primitivism' and 'Americanization' in such novels as My Antonia and O Pioneers! Willa Cather in Context develops interdisciplinary readings of this important Nebraskan novelist, placing her as a writer actively engaged with many of the key debates of early twentieth-century America, from immigration to evolutionary theory.