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Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather's position
in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873,
Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and
novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century.
Beginning with a prologue locating Cather's position, this volume
of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. The first
section takes up Cather's beginnings with her late
nineteenth-century cultural influences. The second section explores
a range of discernible direct connections with contemporary artists
(Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Blumenschein) and
others who figured in the making of her texts. The third section
focuses on The Song of the Lark, a novel that confirms Cather's
shift westward and elaborates her emergent modernism. An epilogue
by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses
how the recent availability of these letters has transformed Cather
studies. Altogether, these essays detail Cather's shaping of the
world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular
modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions.
In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various
connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic
beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical
approaches-derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts,
modernism, and the relationship between art and religion-this
collection will increase our understanding of Cather's aesthetic
and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.
In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various
connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic
beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical
approaches-derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts,
modernism, and the relationship between art and religion-this
collection will increase our understanding of Cather's aesthetic
and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life.
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