Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World ConnectionsRobert Thacker, Michael A. Peterman Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, ?Willa Cather?s Canadian and Old World Connections.? Such connections are central to Cather?s art and artistry. She transported much from the Old World to the New, shaping her antecedents to tell, in new ways, the stories of Nebraska, of the American Southwest, and especially of Quebec, in Shadows on the Rock. ø David Stouck details Cather?s numerous Canadian connections, Richard Millington treats her ?anthropological? re-creation of the cultural moment of seventeenth-century Quebec, and Franöois Palleau-Papin finds ?The Hidden French in Cather?s English.? A volume of lively and informed criticism, Cather Studies 4 vividly demonstrates Cather?s artistry and her work?s deep connections to the present cultural and critical moment. |
Contents
The Vicar Apostolic 19 1929 edition Courtesy | 1 |
Where is Cathers Quebec? Anthropological Modernism | 23 |
The Hidden French in Willa Cathers English | 45 |
The Skeptical | 66 |
Learning | 80 |
Heroic Archetypes | 97 |
Reading the Writer through | 118 |
Cathers Copy of Death Comes for the Archbishop | 172 |
Willa Cathers One of Ours and the Iconography | 187 |
Disease Doctors and Diagnoses | 205 |
Prohibition Ripe Grapes | 225 |
Willa Cathers Sexual | 244 |
St Peters Contemplative Retirement | 264 |
Willa Cather | 284 |
Pauls Case and Balzac | 307 |
The Contributors331 | 331 |
Common terms and phrases
adventure Alexander's Bridge allusion American Ántonia Archbishop archetype artist attic study Auclair become biography Bishop Blue Mesa Canada Canadian Cather's fiction cave Cécile character Christian context Critical culture DAVID STOUCK Death Comes describes disease edition Emerging Voice English epicurean Epicurus essay experience feeling figure France French friendship Frontenac frontier garden gender Goethe's Grand Manan hero heterosexual homosexuality Housman's human Ile d'Orléans imagination Jacinto Jeanne Le Ber Knopf language Latour lesbian letter Lewis Lincoln literary literature lives Louise Pound male Marsellus medico-scientific memory mind mother myth narrative narrator Nebraska novel O'Brien Old World Outland Outland's Story Peter's Pierre Charron priests Professor's House Quebec reader relationship RICHARD MILLINGTON Rock romantic Rosowski scene seems sense sexual Shadows Shropshire Lad Skaggs spiritual Stephen Tennant Stouck suggests symbolic tion Treatise on Wisdom Willa Cather woman women Woodress words writing York young