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On the Divide - The Many Lives of Willa Cather (Hardcover)
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On the Divide - The Many Lives of Willa Cather (Hardcover)
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Willa Cather's fiction frequently plays out on "the divide," the
high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a
child. This book suggests that Cather's own life played out on a
divide as well, deliberately measured out between different roles
and personae that made their way into her writing. "On the Divide"
analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself,
in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional
activities and the very different private self she shared only with
friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the
little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David
Porter provides new insight into the extent--and direction--of her
control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker
Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on
the author's emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to
explore the many ways in which these "divides" in Cather's life
found expression in her writing. Extending from Cather's early
stories to her final novel, Porter's book documents the degree to
which Cather's understanding of her own different and often
conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles,
enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex,
and so profoundly human.
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