Memorial Fictions - Willa Cather and the First World War (Paperback)

"Memorial Fictions" offers a major reassessment of Willa Cather's career and artistic achievements, provides a plethora of information on popular culture during and immediately after the Great War, and demonstrates the importance of literature as a cultural forum for addressing issues and ideas fundamental to American culture. Based on extensive archival research and a variety of scholarly sources drawn from several disciplines, Steven Trout shows how Cather's analysis of the First World War in "One of Ours" and "The Professor's House" represents a considerable accomplishment, one worthy of standing next to her groundbreaking treatment of Nebraska settlers in "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia" and her virtual reinvention of the historical novel in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and "Shadows on the Rock," Furthermore, he argues that Cather's First World War-related fiction deserves consideration alongside such established classics as Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," and Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth," Though awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, One of Ours was a frequently maligned and misunderstood book. Contemporary male reviewers reviled the work, and it has been Cather's most neglected novel among later generations of readers and scholars. Trout not only reevaluates the impact of the First World War on Cather's fiction but also demonstrates that "One of Ours," far from representing a dubious achievement within the Cather canon, renders the American experience of the war with prophetic insight and considerable imaginative vigor. He also offers a detailed reappraisal of "The Professor's House," showing it to be anovel haunted by the phantomlike presence of the Great War.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	May 2008
Authors:	Steven Kirk Trout
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-1837-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-1837-0
Barcode:	9780803218376

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