Cargando…

Cather studies : Willa Cather as cultural icon /

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 betwe...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Colección:Cather studies ; v. 7.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.