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Cather Studies, Volume 12 - Willa Cather and the Arts (Paperback)
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Cather Studies, Volume 12 - Willa Cather and the Arts (Paperback)
Series: Cather Studies
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Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded
to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of
American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much
as the historical past in which much of her writing is based.
Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the
arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft
production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly
engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing
about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions. The
essays in this volume are informed by new modes of
contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of
Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and
across very different cultural periods and by the recent
publication of Cather's correspondence. The collection begins by
exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low
cultures, including Cather's use of "racialized vernacular" in
Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates
how historical research, often focusing on local features in
Cather's fiction, contributes to our understanding of American
culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of
Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather
scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and
an examination of Cather's use of ancient philosophy in The
Professor's House. Together the essays reassess Cather's lifelong
encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
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