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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... Truth , the elemental Reality that lies beneath circumstantial realism . Again Cather's early statements recall ... truths . The only things which are really truths are those which in some degree affect all men . Atoms are not important ...
... Truth under all truths.1 By 1923 Willa Cather's long struggle to find her way as an artist was in one sense over , for she was recognized as one of America's foremost writers . Struggle continued , of course , but now of a dif- ferent ...
... truth of a deathbed confessional , un- softened for any human ear . • Nellie initially turned away with a shudder from such private truth . But gradually she grows calmer until she " began to under- stand a little what [ Myra ] meant ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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