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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... Shadows on the Rock at a time of personal up- heaval . In 1927 her apartment was to be demolished and she was forced to leave 5 Bank Street , " where she had had fourteen ... Shadows on the Rock : Shadows on the Rock: The World of the Mind.
... Shadows on the Rock . And that is the other irony : though nothing is changed off the Rock , on it transmutations ... Shadows on the Rock it was as if Cather had moved onto the Rock , with those who had loyalty in substance , and ...
... Shadows on the Rock , 176 Shadows on the Rock , 143 , 175-88 , 190 ; Gothic elements in , 218 ; harmony of correspondences cele- brated , xiii ; ideas of loyalty and transmutation in , 181 , 184 ; im- mensity of nature dwarfing hu- man ...
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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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