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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines Willa Cather's position in time! in aesthetics! and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873! Cather made herself a modernist through the poems! stories! and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather's position! this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
