Informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Willa 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 essays in this collection reassess Cather’s lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
Informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Willa 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 essays in this collection reassess Cather’s lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
Guy J. Reynolds is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the director of the Cather Project. He is the author of Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (Nebraska, 2008) and Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire, as well as a former general editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series.
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Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Willa Cather and the Arts Guy J. Reynolds 1. “A Lot of Things”: The Value of the Vernacular in Shadows on the Rock Diane Prenatt 2. “Down by de Canebrake”: Willa Cather, Sterling A. Brown, and the Racialized Vernacular Janis P. Stout 3. The Singer as Artist: Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Artist’s Voice Sarah L. Young 4. Cather’s Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late Fiction John H. Flannigan 5. Memory and Image: Graphemics for a New Frontier Icon in My Ántonia Joyce Kessler 6. “Paul’s Case” and Pittsburgh: Industry and Art in the Great Manufacturing Town James A. Jaap 7. Under the White Mulberry Tree: Food and Artistry in Cather’s Orchards Stephanie Tsank 8. “The Passionless Bride”: Love, Loss, and Lucretius in The Professor’s House Matthew Hokum 9. Advertising Willa Cather as Product Erika K. Hamilton Contributors Index
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Willa Cather and the Arts Guy J. Reynolds 1. “A Lot of Things”: The Value of the Vernacular in Shadows on the Rock Diane Prenatt 2. “Down by de Canebrake”: Willa Cather, Sterling A. Brown, and the Racialized Vernacular Janis P. Stout 3. The Singer as Artist: Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Artist’s Voice Sarah L. Young 4. Cather’s Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late Fiction John H. Flannigan 5. Memory and Image: Graphemics for a New Frontier Icon in My Ántonia Joyce Kessler 6. “Paul’s Case” and Pittsburgh: Industry and Art in the Great Manufacturing Town James A. Jaap 7. Under the White Mulberry Tree: Food and Artistry in Cather’s Orchards Stephanie Tsank 8. “The Passionless Bride”: Love, Loss, and Lucretius in The Professor’s House Matthew Hokum 9. Advertising Willa Cather as Product Erika K. Hamilton Contributors Index
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