Author : James Woodress
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803297084
Pages : 654 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
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Author : Cather Studies
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9780803209916
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (29 downloads)
Download Cather Studies PDF Format Full Free by Cather Studies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. 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. Through textual study of her published novels and her behind-the-scenes campaign and publicity writing in service of her novels, the reader comes to understand the extent to which, despite her legendary claims and commitment to privacy, Willa Cather helped to orchestrate her own iconic status.
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803263988
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
Download Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections PDF Format Full Free by Robert Thacker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, ?Willa Cather?s Canadian and Old World Connections.? Such connections are central to Cather?s art and artistry. She transported much from the Old World to the New, shaping her antecedents to tell, in new ways, the stories of Nebraska, of the American Southwest, and especially of Quebec, in Shadows on the Rock. ø David Stouck details Cather?s numerous Canadian connections, Richard Millington treats her ?anthropological? re-creation of the cultural moment of seventeenth-century Quebec, and Franöois Palleau-Papin finds ?The Hidden French in Cather?s English.? A volume of lively and informed criticism, Cather Studies 4 vividly demonstrates Cather?s artistry and her work?s deep connections to the present cultural and critical moment.
Author : Zoë Howe
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Release Date : 2010-06-07
ISBN 10 : 9780857124159
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (124 downloads)
Download How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent PDF Format Full Free by Zoë Howe and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty? Living through bizarre backstage – and onstage – experiences, unconventional childhoods, drugs, debts and mad babysitters, the subjects of this book may have grown up quickly but their backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. In this frank and affectionate book, Zoë Street Howe meets the children of iconic music figures and discovers if a rock star parent really is a blessing or a curse.
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9789004488182
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (488 downloads)
Download Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence PDF Format Full Free by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty essays investigates a series of different aspects of poetic influence in relation to the major modernist poet, Ezra Pound. The volume commences with five essays on matters to do with translation and poetic influence, which situate Ezra Pound as an important transitional figure between 19th-century and 20th-century translation strategies. The next five essays consider different influences on Pound’s poetry, and introduce the reader to new research in a variety of areas, including how specific Chinese cultural artefacts inform his poetry. The following five essays explore Pound’s influence on some of his major contemporaries, such as Eugenio Montale and Charles Olson, and also (through the reading he gave her as a girl) on his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. The concluding five essays exemplify different approaches to the thorny issue of Pound and politics, and end with two diametrically opposed interpretations of Pound’s political / poetic thought. The collection will be of great interest to scholars of Ezra Pound and of modern to postmodern poetry; but it will also serve as a useful and lively introduction to some of the debates within Pound scholarship to students coming to his work for the first time.
Author : Tomoko Kuribayashi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0791435644
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (791 downloads)
Download Creating Safe Space PDF Format Full Free by Tomoko Kuribayashi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of literary essays focusing on the ways in which sexual, emotional, physical, racial, and other forms of violence have affected women artists' imaginations.
Author : John Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 0838641350
Pages : 356 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (838 downloads)
Download Willa Cather PDF Format Full Free by John Joseph Murphy and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents interprative approaches to Willa Cather based on materials available in the Drew University Cather Collection. The scholars suggest the work left to do on Willa Cather, and the diverse directions in which scholars now must travel.
Author : Lawrence P. Gouldrup
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 10 : 0916489272
Pages : 182 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (916 downloads)
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Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1967-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803200129
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
Download The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 PDF Format Full Free by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Kingdom of Art' attempts to give a summary of the first, elementary principles on which one writer based her art, and then to present a collection of critical statements--personal and occasional as well as theoretical--that seem to give a realistic view of Willa Cather as she was in the years 1893-1896.
Author : Gary Brienzo
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 0945636660
Pages : 132 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (945 downloads)
Download Willa Cather's Transforming Vision PDF Format Full Free by Gary Brienzo and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather's Transforming Vision: New France and the American Northeast explores Cather's search for meaning and a domestic center, in particular as her search was influenced by her feelings for New France and the American Northeast. Including biography, critical overview, and primary research into both Cather's writing and some of her most unusual historical sources, this study focuses on Shadows on the Rock, while incorporating this pivotal novel into the larger pattern of Cather's growing need for belonging and order. Shadows on the Rock, set in the city of Quebec ("Kebec") at the end of the seventeenth century, is Cather's fullest expression of love for French culture and its adaptation to New World soil. But more than a mere extolling of what Mme. Auclair in Shadows proudly calls "our way" - a skill with all things domestic that, she boasts, renders the French "the most civilized people in Europe" - this novel is a statement of faith in the ability of both individuals and larger societal orders to work together for the creation of an all-encompassing whole. Writing at mid-life, after the recent illnesses and deaths of her parents, Cather could posit in her story of New France a familial order much larger than the domestic heart of her earlier masterpiece, My Antonia. In all of Quebec, as in the incomplete but fruitful home of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his daughter Cecile, life is sustained by a merging of gender and social roles, as a bishop can become the symbolic head of an entire church as well as of a troubled family, and a bellicose count can play as warm and nurturing a role as the gentlest of parents.
Author : Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803289863
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
Download The Voyage Perilous PDF Format Full Free by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Voyage Perilousis the first extended interpretation of Willa Cather's writing within the literary tradition of romanticism. Although she partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form. ø Susan J. Rosowski argues that Willa Cather early took up the romantic challenge to vindicate imaginative thought in a world threatened by materialism, then pursued it with remarkable consistency throughout her career. The early essays and stories set out the terms of this life-long commitment. In the early novels Cather celebrates imaginative possibilities; in the middle ones she present increasingly desperate circumstances, asking what is left when the imagination is eclipsed by commercial values; in the late novels she writes in a Gothic mode, the dark counterspirit to optimistic romanticism. ø The book is organized chronologically, with a chapter devoted to each novel. The chapters can be read independently or as part of a unified argument providing a larger picture.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
Release Date : 1955
ISBN 10 : OCLC:634327422
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-05-29
ISBN 10 : 9798512041451
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2019-03-19
ISBN 10 : 9780817320140
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (32 downloads)
Download Cather Among the Moderns PDF Format Full Free by Janis P. Stout and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism
Author : Laura Winters
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945636563
Pages : 146 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (945 downloads)
Download Willa Cather PDF Format Full Free by Laura Winters and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work about the ways in which Willa Cather transforms secular space into sacred places in her fiction. She uses landscape not merely as a backdrop against which her characters struggle, but as a character in and of itself - a dynamic presence. For her, landscape is like consciousness, surrounding us always. In her novels, Cather describes the ways in which places allow people to understand their authentic selves. Cather's characters are intricately connected to the places they inhabit. Bartley Alexander cannot be fully understood apart from the kind of bridges he constructs, nor Marian Forrester apart from her bedroom; nor Godfrey St. Peter apart from his houses; nor Myra Henshawe apart from the cliff to which she travels in order to die; nor Father Latour apart from the cathedral he builds and the cave he visits; nor Cecile and Euclide Auclair apart from their home nestled into the rock of Quebec. Each of these characters makes a place of exile his or her own. Cather's artistic voice speaks for and through the landscapes she loved in life. As several critics have noted, Cather's mind works by opposition, furiously spinning doubles of character, experience, temperament, and place. Locating the scenes she imagines in particular places, she forces her readers to merge character and place in a way no other American writer has ever done. Willa Cather's fiction is also suffused with the notion of exile. Her characters, often banished from a native or authentic landscape, are restless pilgrims who long for home - a comforting space, a rest from the arduous journey. In order to manage the condition of exile, Cather's characters must transform secular spaces into sacred places. In these sacred places, existence suddenly makes sense: order is created from chaos, as the history of the earth and the history of the individual merge and are reconciled. Indeed, these sacred places, with an aura of resolution and rightness in their very air, bring peace. In this volume, Laura Winters presents and explains the metaphors of cantilever and suspension in Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge. She addresses Cather's parable of inspiration lost and found in A Lost Lady. She also deals with the pervasiveness of possession in Cather's fiction - particularly with how this pervasiveness is worked out in relation to landscape in The Professor's House. Cather's description of death in exile as presented in My Mortal Enemy and her play with movement and stasis in Death Comes for the Archbishop are also treated. Finally Winters discusses the condition of exile in Shadows on the Rock.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-04
ISBN 10 : 9798630247421
Pages : 136 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Shadows on the Rock PDF Format Full Free by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they left behind.
Author : Richard Giannone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803270992
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
Download Music in Willa Cather's Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Richard Giannone and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is everywhere in Willa Cather's fiction: as a subject, in the background, slyly commenting on the action, connecting characters to a distant world, or revealing their interior worlds. Not merely incidental or ornamental, though, music is intrinsic to Cather's work, a distinctive quality of her creation and expression, and it is in this light that Richard Giannone considers Cather's art. Music in Willa Cather's Fiction is the definitive study of its subject. The first work to examine the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather's narratives, Giannone's book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author's artistic sensibility, the evolution of her art, and her total achievement. ø Progressing chronologically, Giannone shows how Cather's view and use of music changed over time. From what her early journalistic pieces on music and musicians reveal about her attitude and anticipate in her later work, Giannone moves to Cather's early stories to identify the trend of some of her artistic choices, the direction of her stylistic development, and the complication of her moral interest as these are manifested in musical references. In her novels and later stories, he emphasizes the contribution of music to the individual work, as well as the allusions and connections that sound throughout her oeuvre.
