Sensing Willa Cather

The Writer and the Body in Transition

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Guy J. Reynolds, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Reynolds, Guy J. (Professor of English, Guy J Reynolds

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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDistinctive contribution to 'Body Studies'Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-06
Mått138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt348 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474438261

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AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses2. Cather’s Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism3. ‘Sense-dwarfed’: Cather, Aestheticism and a new corporealism4. Pale Shades and Living Colors: Cather’s looks5. Sound Affects: Music, Voice, and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart6. Touch: haptic narrative in The Professor’s House, Shadows on the Rock, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl7. Cather, taste, and national cuisines: The Professor’s House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock8. Cather’s smellscapes: perfumes and flowers; disgust and seduction9. Conclusion: the body of the authorBibliographyIndex

[...] this is a rich, complexly conceived interpretive project—though it is a book that itself reads, and reads Cather, with a deft and approachable lucidity. Sensing Willa Cather is one of those rare critical works that is interesting both for what it has to say about its subject and for how it goes about its intellectual enterprise. [...] Reynolds has given us a new conception of Cather’s writing, one that already seems as necessary as it is novel.