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Item specifics
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- Brand
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- Book Title
- Willa Cather: The Writer and H
- MPN
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- ISBN
- 9780813919966
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813919967
ISBN-13
9780813919966
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1729096
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Willa Cather : the Writer and Her World
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Women Authors, American / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-034975
Reviews
"The strongest pages in Stout's book are devoted to the novel that won Cather the Pulitzer Prize, the 1922 One of Ours. She mounts a sturdy defense of this oddly hollow war novel, about a Nebraska boy who discovers himself, and then death, in the hecatombs of World War I. Savaged by the literary establishment for its ambiguously idealistic view of the war, One of Ours is revealed as an elaborate experimentation with voice and irony; given that The Professor's House, Cather's greatest and most experimental work, was still ahead of her, Stout's argument rings true." -- Philip Kennicott, Washington Post Book World, The strongest pages in Stout's book are devoted to the novel that won Cather the Pulitzer Prize, the 1922 One of Ours. She mounts a sturdy defense of this oddly hollow war novel, about a Nebraska boy who discovers himself, and then death, in the hecatombs of World War I. Savaged by the literary establishment for its ambiguously idealistic view of the war, One of Ours is revealed as an elaborate experimentation with voice and irony; given that The Professor's House, Cather's greatest and most experimental work, was still ahead of her, Stout's argument rings true.
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.52 B
Synopsis
A biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind., Previous biographies of Willa Cather have either recycled the traditional view of a writer detached from social issues whose work supported a wholesome view of a vanished America, or they have focused solely on revelations about her private life. Challenging these narrow interpretations, Janis P. Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. A product of the South--she was born in Virginia--Cather went west with her family at an early age, a participant in the aspirations of Manifest Destiny. Known for her celebrations of immigrants on the prairie, she in fact shared many of the ethnic suspicions of her contemporaries. Loved by a popular audience for her pieties of family and religion, she was in her youth a freethinker who resisted traditional patterns for women's lives, cutting her hair like a boy's and dressing in men's clothing. Seen by critics since the 1930s as a practitioner of an escapist formalism, she was, in Stout's view, profoundly ambivalent about most of the important questions she faced. Cather structured her writing to control her uncertainty and project a serenity she did not in fact feel. Cather has at times been viewed as a writer preoccupied with the past whose literary project had little to do with the intellectual currents of her time. On the contrary, Stout argues, Cather was a full participant in the doubts and conflicts of twentieth-century modernity. Only in recoil from her distress at these conflicts did she turn to overt celebrations of the past and construct a retiring, crotchety persona. The Cather that emerges from Stout's treatment is a modernist conservative in the mold of T. S. Eliot, though more responsive to her time and simultaneously less assured in her pronouncements. Cather's sexuality, too, is more complicated in Stout's version than previous biographers have allowed. Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World presents a woman and an artist who fully exemplifies the ambivalence, the foreboding, and above all the complexity that we associate with the twentieth-century mind.
LC Classification Number
PS3505.A87Z863 2000
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- u***a (251)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI have purchased from them many times. This time, and on occasion I have had an issue with the product, but the seller is graceful about correcting errors. They do a huge volume and sometimes have sent the wrong book or one of their multiples that does not match the description. With swift communication, the seller always resolves the issue. The shipping speed & packaging is excellent. I will continue buying from this seller!
- c***m (426)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseWOW!; I cannot believe this 4 Days to Hawaii! ; AAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii!; Shipped 06 03, Tues, Received 06/07 Sat to Hawaii using free shipping; USPS Ground Mail, Hardcover Book in Excellent Condition--Better Than Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!