Cather studies: Willa Cather as cultural icon
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2007
Schriftenreihe:Cather studies v. 7
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Willa Cather as icon / Guy Reynolds -- A commentary on An explanation of America / Robert Pinsky -- What happens to criticism when the artist becomes an icon? / Elsa Nettels -- Advertising Cather during the transition years (1914-1922) / Erika Hamilton -- Willa Cather and her public in 1922 / Janis P. Stout -- A portrait of an artist as a cultural icon : Edward Steichen, Vanity Fair, and Willa Cather / Michael Schueth -- Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-month Club / Mark J. Madigan -- Two or three human stories: O pioneers! and the Old Testament / Jessica G. Rabin -- Barbusse's L'enfer: a source for Coming, Aphrodite! and The novel démeublé / Richard C. Harris -- Recollecting emotion in tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Cather's My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart / Jonathan D. Gross -- Have I changed so much? : Jim Burden, intertextuality, and the ending of My Antonia / Timothy C. Blackburn -- Shadows in the rock: against interpretation / Richard H. Millington -- Cather's Shadows: solid rock and sacred canopy / John J. Murphy -- Cather's secular humanism: writing anacoluthon and shooting out into the eternities / Joseph R. Urgo -- Subsequent reflections on Shadows on the rock / Richard H. Millington, John J. Murphy, and Joseph R. Urgo -- Cather, Freudianism, and Freud / John N. Swift -- Cather's medical icon: Euclide Auclair, healing art, and the cultivated physician / Joshua Dolezal -- The dialectics of seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh: Double birthday and urban allegory / Joseph C. Murphy -- Antithetical icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway and the first World War / Steven Trout -- Icons and Willa Cather / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- A critic who was worthy of her: the writing of Willa Cather: a critical biography / Robert Thacker
Explores Willa Cather's iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. This work states that not only are Cather's own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 354 p.)
ISBN:0803209916
9780803209916

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