Willa Cather : a writer's worlds
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Willa Cather : a writer's worlds
（Cather studies / edited by Susan J. Rosowski, v. 8）
University of Nebraska Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence. Cather's intellectual intercourse between the Old and the New World was a two-way street, moving both people and cultural mores between the two. But her worlds extended far beyond France, or even geographical locations. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences-theological, aesthetic, even gastronomical-and examines her as tourist and traveler cautiously yet assiduously exploring a diverse range of places, ethnicities, and professions.
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Translating Cather's Worlds
Francoise Palleau-Papin and Robert Thacker Prelude: The Prophetess and the Professor: Rescuing Cather from the Past
Charles A. Peek Part 1. Cather and France, Cather and French Literature
1. Sorbonne Keynote Address: Shadows of a Rock: Translating Willa Cather
Marc Chenetier
2. "The Bravest Act of His Life": Cather, Claude, and the Disadvantages of a Prairie Childhood
Elsa Nettels
3. Willa Cather in Paris: The Mystery of a Torn Photograph
Mark J. Madigan
4. "Pershing's Crusaders": G. P. Cather, Claude Wheeler, and the aef Soldier in France
Richard C. Harris
5. Claude Wheeler's Three Joans in One of Ours
Janet Sharistanian
6. From St. Joan to Madame Joubert: Pilgrimage and Ethnic Memory
Diane Prenatt
7. Willa Cather's One of Ours, Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front, and the Literature of the Great War
Julie Olin-Ammentorp
8. Willa Cather's La comedie humaine
Ann Moseley
9. Willa Cather: Flaubert's Parrot?
Merrill Maguire Skaggs
10. The Temptation of St. Peter: Flaubert's Saint Anthony and Cather's The Professor's House
Stephanie Durrans
11. Chance Meetings in Southern France
David H. Porter Part 2. Great Facts and Aesthetic Techniques
12. "As in a Mirror and a Symbolism": Pascal's Mystical Theology and Cather's Divine Geometry in Death Comes for the Archbishop
Jean-Francois Leroux
13. Cather's Ruskinian Landscapes: Typologies of the New World
Joseph C. Murphy
14. "The Thrill of His Own Poor Little Nerve": Art and the Ambivalence of Voice in My Mortal Enemy
Mathieu Duplay
15. Writing and/as Weaving: Shadows on the Rock and La dame a la licorne
Cristina Giorcelli
16. Chocolate, Cannibalism, and Gastronomical Meaning in Shadows on the Rock
Andrew Jewell Part 3. Other Worlds, Other Places
17. Willa Cather in Space: Exile, Vagrancy, and Knowing
John N. Swift
18. Report from Cherry Valley, Where Willa Cather Was Very Likely "Overcome by a Feeling of Place"
Joseph R. Urgo
19. Edith Lewis as Editor, Every Week Magazine, and the Contexts of Cather's Fiction
Melissa J. Homestead
20. Picturing Their Antonia(s): Mikola Ale and the Partnership of W. T. Benda and Willa Cather
Evelyn I. Funda
21. Willa Cather's Hispanic Epiphanies and The Professor's House
Manuel Broncano
22. Losing and Finding Race: Old Jezebel's African Story
Ann Romines
23. The Fire in the Ash: Dissent and Progressivism in Cather's "Double Birthday"
Joshua Dolezal Postlude: The Green Vase, the Yellow Orange, and the White Chapel: Trying to Define an Art
John J. Murphy Contributors
Index
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