Willa Cather's the song of the lark [electronic resource] / edited by Debra L. Cumberland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cumberland, Debra L.

Series:

Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 10.

Dialogue ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Song of the lark.

Cather, Willa.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark , the latest in Rodopi’s Dialogue Series, is a collection of thirteen new essays exploring Cather’s 1915 classic novel about the coming-of-age of Thea Kronborg, a gifted young opera singer. As in previous editions in the Dialogue series, this volume on Cather’s novel offers analyses by both new and emerging scholars on complex and controversial issues. Specific areas of focus include: the role of the West and the railroad, race and race relations, the performing arts, as well as Cather’s complex construction of “culture” throughout the novel. Thea’s role as a possible feminist icon receives a fresh, insightful look, while other writers explore the nature of gift and gift-giving as well as the novel’s relation to other literary movements and genres. Scholars and the general public will welcome the ways these new critical insights offer a fresh look at this modern classic.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Genius and the (Un)Dead Girls: Consumption, Artistry, and the Female Body in The Song of the Lark / Meghan L. Burke

Anatomy Is All: The Pathology of Voice in The Song of the Lark / Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg

Künstlerroman Revised: Doubleness and Catharsis in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Erica D. Galioto

Immeasurable Yearnings: The Artistic Legacy of the Landscape in Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Danielle Russell

Place, Inspiration, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Annette R. Dolph

A Place Apart: Transcending Social Topographies in The Song of the Lark / Tony R. Magagna

The Kingdom of Culture: Culture, Ethnology and the “Feeling of Empire” in The Song of the Lark / Eric Aronoff

Locating Mexicans in The Song of the Lark / Sarah Clere

“You Are What You Read”: Wharton’s Undine Spragg and Cather’s Thea Kronborg / Julie Olin-Ammentorp

A Tale of Two Sisters: The Influence of “Goblin Market” on Cather’s The Song of the Lark

“The Inevitable Hardness of Human Life”: The Song of the Lark as Naturalism / Richard S. Pressman

Willa Cather’s Transitional Novel: The Song of the Lark as a Romantic-Naturalistic Novel with a Modernist Center / Ann Moseley

Gift Giving and Community in Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Beth E. Torgerson

About the Authors

Abstract of Arguments

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-420-3204-9

OCLC:

693761626

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042032040 DOI