Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDistinctive contribution to 'Body Studies'Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and di...

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Main Author: Reynolds, Guy J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Series:Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century : MALN20C
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Summary:A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDistinctive contribution to 'Body Studies'Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
ISBN:9781474438278
DOI:10.1515/9781474438278

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