Cather studies. Volume 3
Presents a picture of Americans and the country life of America. This book demonstrates a range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather's work. It includes such topics as: Cather's Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature.
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1996
Cather studies, v. 3
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vii, 303 pages ; 24 cm
9780803239203, 9780803264151, 0803239203, 0803264151
36218335
The ideology of Cather's Catholic progressivism : Death comes for the archbishop / Guy Reynolds
"Grande communications avec Dieu" : the surrounding power of Shadows on the rock / Terence Martin
"The white mulberry tree" as opera / Mary Jane Humphrey
Gilt Diana and ivory Christ : love and Christian charity in My mortal enemy / John J. Murphy
Her mortal enemy's daughter : Cather and the writing of age / Ann Romines
Thefts and conversation : Cather and Faulkner / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
The allusive Cather / Marilyn Arnold
"Fire and wit" : storytelling and the American artist in Cather's My Ántonia / Paula Wooley
"Distant and correct" : the double life and The professor's house / Michael Leddy
Spatial structures and forms in The professor's house / Ann Moseley
Time and memory in Sapphira and the slave girl : sex, abuse, and art / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Reflections of authority and community in Sapphira and the slave girl / Sharon Hoover
Cather and the new canon : "The old beauty" and the issue of empire / Elizabeth Ammons
Cather's use of light : an impressionistic tone / Asad Al-Ghalith
Four "new" Cather letters to Annie Fields at the Huntington Library / Robert Thacker
Sponsored by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln in cooperation with the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation