Willa Cather and the Dance - 'A Most Satisfying Elegance'

"Willa Cather and the Dance" traces the writer's dance education, starting with the ten-page explication she wrote in 1913 for McClure's magazine called "Training for the Ballet." Cather's interest was sustained through her entire canon as she utilized characters, scenes, and images from almost all of the important dance productions that played in New York.

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By Wendy K. Perriman

Summary

Willa Cather and the Dance traces the writer's dance education, starting with the ten-page explication she wrote in 1913 for McClure's magazine called "Training for the Ballet." Cather's interest was sustained through her entire canon as she utilized characters, scenes, and images from almost all of the important dance productions that played in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Perriman, Wendy K Perriman, Wendy K. Perriman
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611474091
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-409-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 245 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 671 g
• Series: Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather; The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather; Fairleigh Dickinson University; The Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies