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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 179–192.
Published: 01 August 2013
... mostly with the visible turbulence of history. Willa Cather, I argue, does something very different in Death Comes for the Archbishop : she portrays everyday life as embodying the long past that defines a culture. Cather renders the everyday as the mass of human experience that changes slowly over time...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... fiction's capacity to inhabit both simultaneously. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Willa Cather modernism naturalism semidetached aesthetic experience When I look into the Aeneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sarah Kimmet Abstract Despite Willa Cather's claims about the incompatibility of art and economics, the majority of her novels are structured by and around economic ecosystems, both capitalist and noncapitalist. This article argues that Cather's sensitivity to the heterogeneity of the American...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 305–307.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the nineteenth century” (174). Indeed, not just the nineteenth, since the last two chapters concern Willa Cather (1873–1947) and Buster Keaton (1895–1966), and not just prose fiction, since there are chapters on painting, book design, and cinema. Semi-detached turns out to be not a concept but a hook. It can...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2020
... objects, from canonical modernist works to contemporary novels and films to the It Gets Better Project. The list of authors covered is impressive. Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, William James, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison all have substantial...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 May 2004
... at times this psychologica1 criticism results in familiar
interpretations recast in the Darwinian language of "kin assistance" and "mate selection,"
at other times, as in his reading of Willa Cather's 0 Pioneers!, Carroll reveals his own in-
tuitive gifts, explaining the two disparate plotlines...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 308–312.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of Willa Cather. These two chapters, despite the very different authors and genres they examine, are connected by an interest in the fantasies made available by the novelistic uses of semi-detachment. In Wells's case, we imagine the character who travels into alternate dimensions while always remaining...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 466–470.
Published: 01 November 2019
... desires for security as totalitarian, and displace local political projects with philosophically universal concerns. Voelz reads several works of American prose—Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn , Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave-Girl , Willa Cather's The Professor's House...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2023
... “such set pieces of mise-en-scène tend either to disappear or to become defamiliarized” (48). But in the absence of any engagement with writers beyond Proust, James, and Woolf, this assertion is somewhat unconvincing. What of the work of William Faulkner, or Willa Cather, or Nella Larsen, or Ernest...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 446–449.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of Theodore Dreiser's
Sister Carrie (19001, Willa Cather's The Professor's House (1925), William Faulkner's
Sanct~rary(1931), and Richard Wright's Nafive Son (1940), Dore diagnoses what she calls
"negative narrationu-formal techniques such as elision, prolepsis, erasure, and
deferral-through...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
... on that self-enclosed intensity that nevertheless lies at the heart of so much of the Victorian novel and that perhaps prefigures key modernist novelistic strategies. John Plotz's “Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather's Semidetached Modernism” draws on his current work concerning the forms of partial...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 489–493.
Published: 01 November 2021
... was itself invisible and silent” (37). To accomplish this work of “recover[ing] the ‘specters’ that the war's frame has excluded for so long” in modernist studies, Outka divides the book into three sections. The first, “Pandemic Realism,” takes in Willa Cather's One of Ours (1922), Katherine Anne...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the critical discourse on local color makes clear a recursive relationship between The Country of the Pointed Firs and the literary system. Firs 's world is one that is also arriving at its end. As Willa Cather said of Firs 's place among American novels (along with the place of The Scarlet Letter...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... through the empty house to architectural discourses about narrative form in the writing of Willa Cather as well as Woolf. In his examination of Cather's investment in “aesthetic translucency , her abiding interest in moments when two disconnected experiences converge,” John Plotz discusses a reflection...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the American modernist
novel, Anderson, Faulkner and Fitzgerald (as well as Willa Cather) can be said to
have ultimately worked through the nostalgic impulses informing their respec-
tively mournful undertakings while Dos Passos set his sights from the start on
the future, predicating the genre’s...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... effects of aestheticizing economic policy, calling out modernism's formal means of alienating the popular reader as the novelist's unwitting collusion with global capitalism. Insofar as Willa Cather's The Professor's House examines the consequences of capitalist development, Sarah Kimmet contends...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Anthropocene terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of “the land” and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social meanings of land...
