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Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1970-01-01
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780803207707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver forty short stories survey the initial years of discovery and artistic development of the beloved American author
Author: Cather Studies
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1496225171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilla Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896-1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively--and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: "A Death in the Desert," "The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case." During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh. Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped Cather's writing career and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there. With contributions from fourteen well-known Cather scholars, this collection of essays recognizes the importance Pittsburgh played in Cather's life and work and deepens our appreciation of how her art examines and elucidates the human experience.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780803208209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are, as Bernice Slote observes, bound by the geometrics of urban life—streets and offices, workers and firms, the business world of New York and Pittsburgh, the cities which by 1929 Willa Cather had known well for over thirty years." In her introduction, Slote discusses their biographical elements, connections with earlier and later work, and the intricate patterns that lie below the lucid, shimmering surface of Willa Cather's prose.
Author: Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780803264359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cather?s unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cather?s close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Cather?s novels and short stories are deeply grounded in place, literary critics are only now considering how place functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues through her writing. ø These essays reintroduce us to a Cather who is profoundly identified with the places that shaped her and that she wrote about: Glen A. Love offers an interdisciplinary reading of The Professor?s House that is scientifically oriented; Joseph Urgo argues that My ?ntonia models a preservationist aesthetic in which landscape and memory are inextricably entangled; Thomas J. Lyon posits that Cather had a living sense of the biotic community and used nature as the standard of excellence for human endeavors; and Jan Goggans considers the ways that My ?ntonia shifts from nativism toward a ?flexible notion of place-based community.?
Author: Richard Giannone
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780803270992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic 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.
Author: JoAnna Lathrop
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nobody disputes that the great experiment in Chinese-style socialism will eventually effect the world at large. In the closing years of the 20th century, we are witnessing the reawakening of a colossus that has long dominated Asia geographically and culturally, but is also likely to do so economically and politically in the next century. Geoffrey Murray closely examines China's credentials as a burgeoning superpower, the economic, social and structural dilemmas this poses, as well as the broader ongoing geopolitical implications should the experiment succeed."--Publisher description.
Author: Willa Cather
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 646
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780803263710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter her father dies, Alexandra courageously maintains the family farm and raises her young brother, who is eventually killed by a jealous husband, throwing Alexandra into despair until she meets the strapping Carl Linstrum
Author: Leonard Unger
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780684804941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1642
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