Sensing Willa Cather : the writer and the body in transition /

"A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre. Deploying 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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reynolds, Guy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Series:Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
Subjects:
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947
Human body in literature.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Sens et sensations dans la littérature.
Senses and sensation in literature
Human body in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses
  • Cather's Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism
  • 'Sense-dwarfed': Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism
  • Pale Shades and Living Colours: Cather's Looks
  • Sound Affects: Music, Voice and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy and Lucy Gayheart
  • Touch: Haptic Narrative in The Professor's House, Shadows on the Rock and Sapphira and the Slave Girl
  • Cather, Taste and National Cuisines: The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock
  • Cather's Smellscapes: Perfumes and Flowers, Disgust and Seduction
  • Conclusion: The Body of the Author.

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