Willa Cather and modern cultures / edited by Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds.
Homestead, Melissa J., 1963-; Reynolds, Guy.
2011
PS3505.A87 Z93527 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Willa Cather and modern cultures / edited by Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds.
ISBN
9780803237728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0803237723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xx, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS3505.A87 Z93527 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
Linking Willa Cather to "the modern" or "modernism" still seems an eccentric proposition to some people. Born in 1873, Cather felt tied to the past when she witnessed the emergence of twentieth-century modern culture, and the clean, classical sentences in her fiction contrast starkly with the radically experimental prose of prominent modernists. Nevertheless, her representations of place in the modern world reveal Cather as a writer able to imagine a startling range of different cultures. Divided into two sections, the essays in Cather Studies, Volume 9 examine Willa Cather as an author with an innovative receptivity to modern cultures and a powerful affinity with the visual and musical arts. From the interplay between modern and antimodern in her representations of native culture to the music and visual arts that animated her imagination, the essays are unified by an understanding of Cather as a writer of transition whose fiction meditates on the cultural movement from Victorianism into the twentieth century.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Homestead, Melissa J., 1963-
Reynolds, Guy.
Series
Cather studies ; 9.
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Willa Cather in and out of Zane Grey's West / John N. Swift
Thea's "Indian play" in The song of the lark / Sarah Clere
"Jazz age" places: modern regionalism in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Kelsey Squire
Changing trains: metaphors of transfer in Willa Cather / Mark A.R. Facknitz
Chicago's cliff dwellers and the song of the lark / Michelle E. Moore
Willa Cather and Henry Blake Fuller: more building blocks for The professor's house / Richard C. Harris
Cather's "Office wives" stories and modern women's work / Amber Harris Leichner
It's Mr. Reynolds who wishes it: profit and prestige shared by Cather and her literary agent / Matthew Lavin
Thea at the art institute / Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Art and the commercial object as ekphrastic subjects in The song of the lark and The professor's house / Diane Prenatt
"The nude had descended the staircase": Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout
"The cruelty of physical things": picture writing and violence in Willa Cather's "The profile" / Joyce Kessler
"Before it's romanzas have become street music": Cather and Verdi's Falstaff, Chicago, 1895 / John H. Flannigan.

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