Willa Cather and aestheticism : from Romanticism to Modernism /

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 be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Watson, Sarah Cheney, 1948-, Moseley, Watson and Ann, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
Colección:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs.
Temas:
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Aesthetics.
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947
Aestheticism (Literature)
Romanticism > United States.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > United States.
Esthétisme (Littérature)
Romantisme > États-Unis.
Modernisme (Esthétique) > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Aesthetics
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Romanticism
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The "intrinsic beauty" of art / Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson. Part I : The aesthetic movement Exit smiling : the case for Paul's dandyism / Timothy W. Bintrim
  • Innocence and experience, good and evil, and doppelgangers : decadent aesthetics in Cather's "Consequences," James's "The jolly corner," and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray / Sonja Froiland Lynch and Robert Lee Lynch
  • Willa Cather's time machine : Alexander's bridge, H.G. Wells, and aesthetic temporality / Peter Betjemann
  • Aestheticism and the dispossessed : Cather's dual Europe in America / Nicholas Birns
  • Willa Cather's disenchanted epicurean : Godfrey St. Peter in The professor's house / Sarah Cheney Watson
  • Part II : The visual arts The arts and crafts on Willa Cather's frontier / Leona Sevick
  • Cather's "Twilight stage" : aestheticism, tonalism, and modernist sentiment / Joseph C. Murphy
  • Willa Cather, the Nabi of Red Cloud / Mark Facknitz
  • Blessed damsels, lost ladies, and Cather's real women / Angela Conrad
  • Fernand Léger and Willa Cather's "Coming, Aphrodite!" / Jacqueline H. Harris
  • Part III : Movement toward modernism "The nude had descended the staircase" : Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout
  • With the "hand, fastidious and bold" : bridging Walter Pater's aestheticism and Willa Cather's modernism / Olga Aksakalova
  • From British aestheticism to American modernism : Cather's transforming vision / Jo Ann Middleton
  • Part IV : Art and religion Willa Cather's sheltering art : Cather's cathedral and the Adams factor / John J. Murphy.

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