The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's RomanticismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1986 - 284 pagina's They Voyage Perilous is the first extended interpretation of Willa Cather's writing within the literary tradition of romanticism. Although she partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form.
Susan J. Rosowski argues that Willa Cather early took up the romantic challenge to vindicate imaginative thought in a world threatened by materialism, then pursued it with remarkable consistency throughout her career. The early essays and stories set out the terms of this life-long commitment. In the early novels Cather celebrates imaginative possibilities; in the middle ones she present increasingly desperate circumstances, asking what is left when the imagination is eclipsed by commercial values; in the late novels she writes in a Gothic mode, the dark counterspirit to optimistic romanticism.
The book is organized chronologically, with a chapter devoted to each novel. The chapters can be read independently or as part of a unified argument providing a larger picture. |
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... Canute Canuteson had " first squatted along the banks of Rattlesnake Creek " when " there was not a human being within twenty miles . " He was a giant of a man , of such colossal dimensions and legendary strength he was believed to have ...
... Canute's shanty . 31 Like the cave drawings of early man , these pictures represent a passage from brute to human sensibility . They occur in a scene symbolic of the immigrant's spiritual confrontation with the plains . Canute's shanty ...
... Canute Canuteson's ten - year battle with his land as one he would not win , yet she knew that future generations would succeed , and she enabled Canute in the meantime to at least understand his adversary . Canute " knew by heart every ...
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The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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