"This omnibus reveals the full breadth of Cather's astonishing literary career.
This volume contains four great works (O Pioneers!
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!
Willa Cather: Selected Works By Willa Carther
It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants.
This is a work about the ways in which Willa Cather transforms secular space into sacred places in her fiction.
Frederick T. Griffiths astutely observes that Cather “ practices the Tolstoyan art of seeing war and peace as describable within the same reality " and that her " technique of using books of peace to set up the terms of the books of war ...
“ The Bohemian Girl ” begins with the return of Nils Ericson to his farm home on the Divide , twelve years after leaving as a restless young man to seek his fortune in the old country . His mother and older brothers have stayed on the ...
Treasure of Far Island ' , 22 , 59 ; The Troll Garden ( collection ) , 56 , 61 , 64 , 70 , 105 ; " Two Friends ' , 133 ; ' Uncle Valentine ' , 49 , 50 : ' A Wagner Matinee ' , 17-18 , 61 , 105 Calvé , Emma , 51 Campbell , Thomas , 17 ...
A friend , Edith Lewis , also lived in the same building . Cather and Lewis had met years earlier in Lincoln , Nebraska . At the time , Lewis had just graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and was back in Lincoln for the summer ...
Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebraska through her years as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and examines the relationship between what she wrote and who she was.
The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .
The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .
Cather had met Lewis three years earlier , during a trip home to Nebraska . Lewis , born and raised in Lincoln , had just graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts . The two women became friends , and Cather helped Lewis get her job ...
This book presents interprative approaches to Willa Cather based on materials available in the Drew University Cather Collection.
This volume explores Cather's accomplishments in the story, and presents her views on the short story and its differences from the novel. The first section presents various approaches to selected...
John P. Anders's monograph Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition also sought to expand the range of approaches used to examine sexuality in Cather's work. Anders drew on gender studies and gay ...
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of...
Willa Cather's novels were neglected after her death, but a new generation of readers has greeted her work with enthusiasm.
Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebraska through her years as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and examines the relationship...