Violence, the arts, and Willa Cather / edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Urgo, Joseph R.

Skaggs, Merrill Maguire.

Conference Name:

Willa Cather International Seminar (10th : 2005 : Red Cloud, Neb. and University of Nebraska--Lincoln)

Series:

Willa Cather series

The Willa Cather series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Cather, Willa.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Violence in literature--Congresses.

Violence in literature.

Arts in literature--Congresses.

Arts in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]

Contents:

A note on the 2005 International Willa Cather Seminar / Merrill Maguire Skaggs and Joseph R. Urgo

Introduction : existential terror in Cather / Joseph R. Urgo

Over there from over here : the authorial reader and One of ours / Richard C. Harris

"Do talk to me" : violent deaths and isolated survivors in Cather's novels / Margaret Doane

Violence, silence, and privacy : the problem of "family feeling" in Cather's late fiction / Ann Romines

Violence and childhood in Cather's fiction / Elsa Nettels

Touching the note and passing on : violence in Cather's picture of the West / Janis P. Stout

Outland over there : Cather's cosmopolitan West / Geneva Gano

From larceny to suicide : the Denny Case and "Paul's case" / Timothy W. Bintrim and Mark J. Madigan

She's not a puzzle so arbitrarily solved : Willa Cather's violent self-construction / Robert Thacker

"At the center of her mystery" : sexual trauma and Willa Cather / J. Gabriel Scala

Shame and rage : a generative pairing in Willa Cather's The song of the lark / Stephen Monroe

Cather's violent assimilation of Henry James's art / Merrill Maguire Skaggs

"Kind things" : recessional objects and Cather's materialism / John N. Swift

Cather's "elastigirls" : reckoning with sex/gender violence in woman artist stories / Marilee Lindemann

Ernestine Schumann-heink : the diva in One of ours / Becky Faber

Dancing behind the veil : Willa Cather's literary choreography in A lost lady / Wendy K. Perriman

Repatching the tailor : violence on Rosicky's urban frontiers / Joseph C. Murphy

Subverting the male gaze : Willa Cather's Lena Lingard and William Faulkner's Lena Grove / Sarah C. Gardam

Violent art, sacred art : artists and sacrifice in Willa Cather / Frances Zauhar

Violations and fatal apertures : Cather's "heathenish" aesthetics / Michele Aina Barale

"I like to be like a man" : female masculinity in O pioneers! and My Ántonia / Daniel Worden

Prophecy, violence, and the old order in the Archbishop / John J. Murphy

From violence to art : Willa Cather caught in the eddy / David H. Porter.

Notes:

Selected essays originally presented at the 2005 International Willa Cather Seminar, June 18-25, 2005, Red Cloud and Lincoln, Nebraska.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838641576

0838641571

OCLC:

79256703