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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... recalls Ovid's Metamorphosis . Like Pyra- mis and Thisbe , Emil and Marie meet and die beneath a mulberry ́tree , their blood staining the white berries dark . But here , as else- where , Cather's closest emotional ties are to Keats ...
... recalls his unsuccessful efforts to find Blake and the reader recalls that Outland himself , long dead , is no longer very real to those who once knew him ( 111 ) . Again the quest for a real self is thwarted : Outland eludes others in ...
... recalls his dead boyhood friend ; at the end Harry Gordon attends another funeral and recalls another youth . And though Cather focused her plot upon Lucy , she gave the emotional power of the book to Clement Sebastian and Harry Gordon ...
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The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
Copyright | |
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