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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... takes place on January twentieth , Jim Burden's eleventh birthday ( 92 ) . Thus the ideal and the real , the general ... take his hand and lead him into the prairie , not stopping " until the ground itself stopped - fell away before us ...
... take her place in the Rosicky family ) and her spiritual one . When his pain has gone , Polly takes his hand and opens herself to the grace of love : His hand pressed hers . She noticed that it was warm again . The twinkle in his yellow ...
... takes Nelly's son and daughter , and the last paragraph the three women are again clustered around children who , as ... take music lessons ? What would have happened to her childish vitality once it was awakened to a woman's passion ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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