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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cather, Willa"”.
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Willa Cather as seen by the critics since 1920.
… a research for all the possible criticisms of Willa Cather since 1920. It has been written to record how Willa Cather has been seen by critics throughout the four decades: 1920-1930, 1931-1940, and 1951-1960, each decade forming a chapter. The criticisms are introduced in chronological order …
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AMERICAN MADNESS: THE FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLA CATHER, AND O.E. RØLVAAG
… Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag rely on the frontier and the theme of madness to depict characters’ aberrant behaviors. Using these depictions of madness, I explore questions of religion, violence, gender, and ethnic identity to analyze the …
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
This project investigates the neo-sacramentalism of various Midwestern modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world that questioned the literalist epistemology bequeathed by New England …
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Money in the Fiction of Willa Cather
… subject of money is important in the fiction of Willa Cather. She discusses it frequently and often at great length. In some works it is a major theme.</p> <p>Despite its importance, a number of Willa Cather's critics have ignored the subject or have given it only cursory mention. Several …