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Author:   Cather Studies ,  Ann Moseley ,  John J. Murphy ,  Robert Thacker
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9780803296992

ISBN 10:   0803296991
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Introduction: Willa Cather at the Modernist CruxAnn Moseley, John J. Murphy, and Robert ThackerPrologue: Gifts from the Museum: Catherian Epiphanies in Context John J. MurphyPart 1. Beginnings 1. The Compatibility of Art and Religion for Willa Cather: From the BeginningSteven B. Shively2. Thea in Wonderland: Willa Cather’s Revision of the Alice Novels and the Gender Codes of the Western Frontier Michelle E. Moore3. Ántonia and Hiawatha: Spectacles of the Nation Joseph C. MurphyPart 2. Presences 4. Willa Cather, Howard Pyle, and “The Precious Message of Romance”Richard C. Harris5. “Then a Great Man in American Art”: Willa Cather’s Frederic Remington Robert Thacker6. Willa Cather, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and ""The Painting of Tomorrow"" James A. Jaap7. From The Song of the Lark to Lucy Gayheart, and Die Walküre to Die WinterreiseDavid Porter8. The Trafficking of Mrs. Forrester: Prostitution and Willa Cather's A Lost LadyCharmion Gustke9. The Outlandish Hands of Fred Demmler: Pittsburgh Prototypes in The Professor’s HouseTimothy W. Bintrim10. Translating the Southwest: The 1940 French Edition of Death Comes for the ArchbishopMark J. MadiganPart 3. Articulation: The Song of the Lark 11. Elements of Modernism in The Song of the LarkAnn Moseley12. “The Earliest Sources of Gladness”: Reading the Deep Map of Cather’s Southwest Diane Prenatt13. Re(con)ceiving Experience: Cognitive Science and Creativity in The Song of the Lark Joshua Doležal14. Women and Vessels in The Song of the Lark and Shadows on the RockAngela ConradEpilogue: The Difference That Letters Make: A Meditation on The Selected Letters of Willa CatherAndrew Jewell and Janis StoutContributors Index "

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Essential reading in the field. . . . These essays point the way toward a new generation of Cather scholarship. -Daryl Palmer, author of Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare -- Daryl Palmer The essays selected for the volume-in all cases substantial and thoughtful, in some cases exhilarating in their intellectual richness and scope-valuably deepen, complicate, and extend the account of the precise nature of Cather's modernism. -Richard Millington, coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Richard Millington The essays that comprise Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux are a welcome addition to the ongoing assessment of the author's career and her contributions to modern US literature. -Susan Naramore Maher, American Literary History -- Susan Naramore Maher * American Literary History *

The essays selected for the volume-in all cases substantial and thoughtful, in some cases exhilarating in their intellectual richness and scope-valuably deepen, complicate, and extend the account of the precise nature of Cather's modernism. - Richard Millington, coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne Essential reading in the field... These essays point the way toward a new generation of Cather scholarship. - Daryl Palmer, author of Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare

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Ann Moseley is the William L. Mayo Professor and professor emerita of literature and languages at Texas A&M University–Commerce. John J. Murphy is professor emeritus at Brigham Young University. Robert Thacker is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University.

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