Kelsey Squire

Willa Cather (eBook, PDF)

The Critical Conversation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.



The ever-growing body of criticism on Willa Cather and her fiction is indicative of her enduring position as a pre-eminent figure of twentieth-century American literature. It has been spurred by the challenge of situating Cather in relation to established critical approaches. Since the 1920s, Cather's work has been praised by critics for its realism, innovative form, and diversity; simultaneously, it has been derided as nostalgic, anti-modern, and narrow.Drawing on monographs, edited collections, journal articles, and society publications, Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation provides Cather scholars and students at the graduate and undergraduate levels with an accessible overview of Cather's critical reception through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In addition to providing a valuable resource for research and teaching on Cather, the book also speaks to broader issues such ascanon formation and historical trends in literary criticism that are relevant to American literature and culture as a whole. This book provides a solid understanding of the major issues in Cather criticism over time, with an eye toward how the conversation may continue for decades to come.

Kelsey Squire is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446861
• Artikelnr.: 63205160

Autorenporträt

Kelsey Squire

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Willa Cather's Mercurial Position Among the Critics
1918-1949 The Author and the Archetype: Biographical and Thematic Approaches to Cather Critical Conversations on Gender and Sexuality The Sociohistorical Cather: Approaches to Race
War
and the Environment Cather in the Literary Marketplace: Authorial Criticism
Archival Studies
and Book-Historical Criticism Afterword: "Having It Out
" or Continuing the Critical Conversation