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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... past : " A sense of belonging to and restoring the native tradi- tion distinguishes the Romantic poets in England , where there was no incisive break in continuity , as in Germany and France . " Unlike the French Romantics , who were ...
... past was physically shut off ; that was his illusion " ( 304 ) . Entering France , Claude remains oblivious to increasingly ominous warn- ings that it is madness to discard history . In Paris Claude sees a one - armed psychopathic ...
... past . The feeling of loathing and despair that drives Cavenaugh to suicide is the more obvious one ; yet Cavenaugh unexpectedly feels also compassion and re- sponsibility for the haunt , and he will not cast off the grotesque reminder ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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