The troll garden
著者
書誌事項
The troll garden
Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, c1983
A definitive ed. / edited by James Woodress ; with introduction, notes, textual commentary, emendations, and table of revisions
大学図書館所蔵 全13件
注記
Includes bibliographical references
収録内容
- Flavia and her artists
- The sculptor's funeral
- The garden lodge
- "A death in the desert"
- The marriage of Phaedra
- A Wagner matinee
- Paul's case
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This collection of Willa Cather stories (her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career) is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes - all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers.With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art. James Woodress is a professor emeritus of American literature at the University of California, Davis, and the author of many books, including "Willa Cather: A Literary Life" (Nebraska 1987).
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