Willa Cather and Modern Cultures - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0803237723 ISBN 13: 9780803237728

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Melissa J. Homestead is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and program faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author ofAmerican Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869. Guy J. Reynolds is a professor of English and the director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author ofWilla Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire and Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (Nebraska 2008).

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0803237723
• ISBN 13: 9780803237728
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 306
• Redattore: Homestead Melissa J., Reynolds Guy J.