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Author : David Stouck
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather's Imagination written by David Stouck and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Fryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Felicitous Space written by Judith Fryer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1649741847
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307959317
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather written by Willa Cather and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her death, with her literary reputation as secure as a reputation can be, the letters have become available for publication. The 566 letters collected here, nearly 20 percent of the total, range from the funny (and mostly misspelled) reports of life in Red Cloud in the 1880s that Cather wrote as a teenager, through those from her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and during her growing eminence as a novelist. Postcards and letters describe her many travels around the United States and abroad, and they record her last years in the 1940s, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Written to family and close friends and to such luminaries as Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Yehudi Menuhin, Sinclair Lewis, and the president of Czechoslovakia, Thomas Masaryk, they reveal her in her daily life as a woman and writer passionately interested in people, literature, and the arts in general. The voice heard in these letters is one we already know from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times funny, sentimental, and sarcastic. Unfiltered as only intimate communication can be, they are also full of small fibs, emotional outbursts, inconsistencies, and the joys and sorrows of the moment. The Selected Letters is a deep pleasure to read and to ponder, sure to appeal to those with a special devotion to Cather as well as to those just making her acquaintance.
Author : Demaree C. Peck
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636878
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Imaginative Claims of the Artist in Willa Cather's Fiction written by Demaree C. Peck and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, her first book, scholar Demaree C. Peck assigns Willa Cather her rightful place in our literary history. Challenging the assumption that women writers must draw their inspiration from a lineage of female predecessors, Peck portrays Willa Cather as a woman who self-consciously set out to write within a male literary tradition that she identified as Emersonian. Peck explores the psychological underpinnings of Cather's aesthetics to show that her theory of stylistic economy and simplicity was motivated by a desire to reorganize the elements of the artistic stage exclusively around her own romantic ego - that "inexplicable presence of the thing not named". Although Cather's protagonists appear in various disguises, clad as pioneers, lawyers, or priests, they are all incarnations of the artist who appropriates people and places as parts of consciousness. Cather's imaginative claimants seek to assimilate the world as a reflection of the self, in the way that their prototype, Emerson's poet-landlord, enjoys a figurative ownership of the landscape in reward for his integrating vision. The novels offer a series of ingenious masquerades beneath whose plots lurk variations of a single story impelled by the artist's quest to take imaginative possession of the world in order to recover the dominion of her soul. Unlike critics who have discussed Cather's novels as a series of discrete experiments, Peck charts the pursuit for imaginative possession as a continuous theme, thereby suggesting a coherence for Cather's art and career as a whole. Offering original interpretations of eight of Cather's novels in the light of previously undiscussed letters and other biographical materials, Peckexplores the relation between Cather's life and art to suggest that she created her central characters as surrogates whose imaginative accumulations could compensate her for various dispossessing experiences in her own life. Cather's novels operate according to the psychological laws of wish fulfillment. While Cather's romanticism has its historical origin in American transcendentalism, its psychological origin derives from the mythic domain of childhood. Cather's "kingdom of art" sanctions the dream projected upon childhood of an original omnipotence that could cheat fate and remain unsoiled by experience. Her novels enact a fantasy of return to primal wholeness. Peck suggests that the novels serve a restorative function not only for their author, but for Cather's readers as well. Cather's fiction is significant, Peck argues, because it performs an important psychological work for its audience.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442934379
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1960 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264359
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination written by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Willa Cather
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454954582
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)
Download or read book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book My Mortal Enemy written by Willa Cather and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myra and her husband Oswald return to their fictional hometown of Parthia, Illinois, to visit their relatives. Nellie and Aunt Lydia then leave to spend the Christmas holiday in New York City with them. They dine with Ewan Gray, a friend who has an infatuation with another actress, Esther Sinclair. Oswald receives silver-buttons for his shirt from an old Western acquaintance, and asks Lydia to pretend she gave them to him to thwart his wife's jealousy. Later Myra and Nellie go to the opera; in a lodge they spot an erstwhile friend of Myra's, which makes her sad.Ten years later, Nellie moved into a shabby flat in a little town on the west coast, and bumps into the Henshawes. Myra is now bedridden and Oswald works full-time; their upstairs neighbours are atrociously noisy, regardless of Myra's illness. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather written by Hermione Lee and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cather is usually read as a nostalgic celebrator of the American past. Lee explores a stranger and more complex Cather, whose life and work are rife with split identities, sexual conflicts and stoic fatalism. Illustrated.
Author : Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064814
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration written by Joseph R. Urgo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a land where there is constant migration, can there be a "homeland"? In the United States, migration is initially experienced as immigration, but the process never achieves closure. Migration continues as transience - restless, unsettled movement across social and economic classes, states, and national borders. In this nuanced study grounded in literature, history, and popular culture, Joseph Urgo demonstrates that American culture and our sense of national identity are permeated by unrelenting, incessant, and psychic mobility across spatial, historical, and imaginative planes of existence." "There is no better example of a writer reflecting on this migratory consciousness than Willa Cather. At home in numerous locations - Nebraska, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Canada - Cather infused her novels with the cultural vitality that is a consequence of transience. By locating transience at the center of his conception of our national culture, Urgo redefines the mythos of American national identity and global empire. He concludes with an analysis of a potential "New World Order" in which migration replaces homeland as the foundation of world power."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.
Author : Ann Moseley
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611475120
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather and Aestheticism written by Ann Moseley and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Song of the Lark written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.
Author : Joyce McDonald
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359583
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Stuff of Our Forebears written by Joyce McDonald and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Cather's work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth
Author : Joan Ross Acocella
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803210462
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism written by Joan Ross Acocella and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.
Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326724
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather and Others written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVQueer theory employed in a sympathetic reading of Cather in all her complexity, and in relation to several of her contemporaries./div
