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UNINA9910790123303321 |
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Titolo |
Willa Cather and modern cultures [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49775-0 |
9786613592989 |
0-8032-3975-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HomesteadMelissa J. <1963-> |
ReynoldsGuy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Willa Cather in and out of Zane Grey's West / John N. Swift -- Thea's "Indian play" in The song of the lark / Sarah Clere -- "Jazz age" places: modern regionalism in Willa Cather's The professor's house / Kelsey Squire -- Changing trains: metaphors of transfer in Willa Cather / Mark A.R. Facknitz -- Chicago's cliff dwellers and the song of the lark / Michelle E. Moore -- Willa Cather and Henry Blake Fuller: more building blocks for The professor's house / Richard C. Harris -- Cather's "Office wives" stories and modern women's work / Amber Harris Leichner -- It's Mr. Reynolds who wishes it: profit and prestige shared by Cather and her literary agent / Matthew Lavin -- Thea at the art institute / Julie Olin-Ammentorp -- Art and the commercial object as ekphrastic subjects in The song of the lark and The professor's house / Diane Prenatt -- "The nude had descended the staircase": Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout -- "The cruelty of physical things": picture writing and violence in Willa Cather's "The profile" / Joyce Kessler -- "Before it's romanzas have become street music": Cather and Verdi's Falstaff, Chicago, 1895 / John H. Flannigan. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Linking Willa Cather to "the modern" or "modernism" still seems an eccentric proposition to some people. Born in 1873, Cather felt tied to |
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