Willa Cather and modern cultures /
"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 contra...
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Lincoln ; London :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Cather studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Willa Cather in and out of Zane Grey's West / John N. Swift
- Thea's "Indian play" in The song of the lark / Sarah Clere
- "Jazz age" places: modern regionalism in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Kelsey Squire
- Changing trains: metaphors of transfer in Willa Cather / Mark A.R. Facknitz
- Chicago's cliff dwellers and The song of the lark / Michelle E. Moore
- Willa Cather and Henry Blake Fuller: more building blocks for The professor's house / Richard C. Harris
- Cather's "Office wives" stories and modern women's work / Amber Harris Leichner
- It's Mr. Reynolds who wishes it: profit and prestige shared by Cather and her literary agent / Matthew Lavin
- Thea at the Art Institute / Julie Olin-Ammentorp
- Art and the commercial object as ekphrastic subjects in The song of the lark and The professor's house / Diane Prenatt
- "The nude had descended the staircase": Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout
- "The cruelty of physical things": picture writing and violence in Willa Cather's "The profile" / Joyce Kessler
- "Before its romanzas have become street music": Cather and Verdi's Falstaff, Chicago, 1895 / John H. Flannigan.