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Porter David H. <1935-> |
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Titolo |
On the divide [[electronic resource] ] : the many lives of Willa Cather / / David Porter |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-95842-5 |
9786611958428 |
0-8032-1908-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Novelists, American - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-355) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. Cather on Cather; 1. Three Autobiographies and an (Auto)interview; 2. Dust-Jacket Copy; Part II. Entering the Kingdom of Art; 3. The Quest to Excel; 4. Cather Caught in the Eddy; 5. Two Alter Egos; Part III. At Home on the Divide; 6. O Pioneers! and My Autobiography; 7. The Song of the Lark; 8. My Ántonia; Part IV. Confronting Medusa; 9. "Hard and Dry"; 10. Youth and the Bright Medusa; 11. One of Ours; Part V. "The Seeming Original Injustice"; 12. A Lost Lady |
13. The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett 14. The Professor's House; 15. My Mortal Enemy; Part VI. Recapitulation; 16. Cather Talks with Cather; Part VII. "In the End Is My Beginning"; 17. Death Comes for the Archbishop; 18. Fiction of the 1930's; 19. Cather, Jewett, and Not Under Forty; 20. Sapphira and the Slave Girl; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On the Divide analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself, in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional activities and the very different private self she shared only with friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David Porter provides |
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