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Cather Studies, Volume 10: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth ...

Cather Studies, Volume 10: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth ...

Cather Studies

Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America.
Cather Studies: Willa Cather As Cultural Icon

Cather Studies: Willa Cather As Cultural Icon

Cather Studies

Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture.
Cather Studies, Volume 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

Cather Studies, Volume 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

Cather Studies

Altogether, these essays detail Cather’s shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions.
Cather Studies

Cather Studies

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Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student.
Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds

Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds

Cather Studies

MANUEL BRONCANO The big stars, the blue night, The moon-enchanted plain: The olive man who never spoke, But sang the songs of Spain —Willa Cather, “ Spanish Johnny” Willa Cather never visited Spain, even though in her various trips ...
Willa Cather as Cultural Icon

Willa Cather as Cultural Icon

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Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture.
Cather Studies: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World ...

Cather Studies: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World ...

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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.
Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather

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Urgo, Joseph R. 1989. "Historicism in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady." Studies in American Fiction 17, no. 1 (Spring): 183-92. Weber, Carl Maria Von; J. L. Vaudoyer, and Michel Fokine. 1980/1998. L Spectre de la Rose. "Nureyev and the Joffrey ...
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

Erin Duncan delights in her Marshall prepares to read, award. — Cooper Photo — Cooper Photo During the banquet master of ceremonies Ron Hull proudly announced that "Nebraska is a very singular place." After a full day in Cather country, ...
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Hermione Lee

The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .
Willa Cather and Aestheticism

Willa Cather and Aestheticism

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She holds the Doctor of Education degree from Texas A&M— Commerce, where she wrote her dissertation under the direction of Ann Moseley. Entitled Servant of Beauty: Willa Cather and the Aesthetic Movement, it examines the influence of ...
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

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ann moseley, john j. murphy, and robert thacker Downum, Christian E. Message to Ann Moseley. 29 July 2015. E-mail. Millington, Richard H. “Willa Cather's Two Modernisms.” Letterature D'America 144 (2013): 41–56. Print. Quirk, Tom.
Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War

Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War

Steven Trout

"Based on extensive archival research and a variety of scholarly sources drawn from several disciplines, Steven Trout shows how Cather's analysis of the First World War in One of Ours and The Professor's House represents a considerable ...
The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era

The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era

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Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, Carol J. Singley. Schroeter, James. " Willa Cather and The Professor's House." Willa Cather and Her Critics. Ed. James Schroeter. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1967. 363-81. Schwartz, Delmore. "The Present ...
Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education: ...

Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education: ...

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On becoming neighborrosicky: Willa Cather, William James, and the constructs of well-being. In J. O. Pawleski & D. J. Moores (Eds.), The eudaimonic turn: Well- being in literary studies (pp. 227–246). Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University ...
Body Studies: An Introduction

Body Studies: An Introduction

Margo DeMello

This book will appeal to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies.
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Dorothy Tuck McFarland

Reveals the life of the writer whose novels vividly capture the struggles, hardships, and hopes of the American pioneers
History, Memory and War

History, Memory and War

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A collection of essays that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of the day.
Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey

Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey

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As such, this volume will appeal to fans of Matheson’s work in general as well as scholars of literature, film studies, cultural studies, genre studies, media studies, memory studies, and popular culture.
Modern Women Writers

Modern Women Writers

Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Describes the work of American writers from Cather and Chopin to Tyler and Oates and includes bibliographies of criticism
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary

Melissa A. Fitch

The text engages some key concepts from contemporary critics in the fields of tourism studies, geography, dance studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, transnational studies, television studies, feminism, and queer theory.
Witch

Witch

Nancy Holder

After losing her parents in a rafting accident, Holly Cather is sent to live with her aunt and twin cousins in Seattle, where she discovers a family legacy of magic, possession, and reincarnation, and a generations-old feud.
O Pioneers

O Pioneers

Willa Cather

A Pulitzer Prize–winning novel celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013, this is a tale of people struggling to carve out a life in the wilderness while battling ever-duplicitous human nature Alexandra Bergson's father, John, is dying.
Service-learning In The Disciplines

Service-learning In The Disciplines

Edward Zlotkowski

Accounting Biology Communication Studies Composition Engineering * Environmental Studies * History * Hospitality * Management * Medical Education * Nursing * Peace Studies * Philosophy * Political Science * Psychology * Religious Studies * ...
A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

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Students and scholars of development studies, gender studies, security studies, politics and middle eastern studies will find this book an important guide to the evolving crisis.

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