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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... passion . That is all " ( 570–71 ) . Thea's development has been a working out of this idea — the passion , the container , and the drama . In Moonstone a young Thea was uncontained passion . Lying on her bedroom floor in the moon ...
... passion to yield infinite variety , pleasure , and distraction , and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists . So this passion , when set ...
... passion in the Alexandra and Marie - Emil stories rather than upon interpret- ing the novel within a pastoral ... Passionate Shepherd to His Love " ) , III ( “ Are These Meliboeus ' Sheep ? " ) , VII ( " The Sing- ing Match " ) , VIII ...
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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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