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Willa Cather.

Authors :
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
Source :
New Republic; 6/17/25, Vol. 43 Issue 550, p91-94, 4p
Publication Year :
1925

Abstract

Focuses on the stories written by American fiction writer Willa Cather. Impression of the author on Cather; Description of the character Antonia in the novel "My Antonia"; Life in Nebraska and the American Midwest in the stories "My Antonia," "O Pioneers!," and "The Song of the Lark"; Depiction of the history of the Red Cloud region in the days when the railroad building aristocracy lived in "A Lost Lady"; Picture of the impact of industrialization in the rural regions in "One of Ours"; Themes of artistic evolution of a singer in "The Song of the Lark"; Influences from Sarah Orne Jewett in the literary canons of honesty and perfection; Artistic and literary styles of Cather; Expression of the artistic creed of Jewett that the artist spends his life loving things that haunt him, in having his minds teased by them, in trying to get them down to paper exactly as they are to him.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
43
Issue :
550
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
15223658