The Influence of French Culture on Willa Cather [electronic resource] : Intertextual References and Resonances

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durrans, Stéphanie.

Durrans, Stâephanie., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--French influences.

American literature.

France--In literature.

France.

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Knowledge--France.

Cather, Willa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Influence of French Culture on Willa Cather

Influence of French Culture on Willa Cather

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first full-length study to address the complex issues involved in Cather's relationship to France and to the many French writers (Zola, Flaubert, Sand, France, Mérimée, Loti, etc.) that keep cropping up in her literary and journalistic output. The author traces the intellectual and artistic roots that nourished Cather's writing and examines the dynamic relationship between American and French literatures.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One- Romantic Landscapes: Reclaiming the Wilderness; 1. The Quest for Origins: Provence and Nebraska; 2. Pierre Loti and the Extreme Edges of Experience; 3. The Call of the East; Chapter Two- Inner Realms of Adventure: Willa Cather's Search for a Voice of Her Own; 1. Yearning for Adventure in a Man's World; 2. Domestic Deserts: The Professor's House and Death Comes for the Archbishop; 3. Lighting Out for the Territrories of the Self

Chapter Three- Willa Cather's Pastoral Symphony: From O Pioneers! to My Antonia1. Paradise Lost or the Demise of Pastoral Romance; 2. The Role of the Artist as a Social Mediator; 3. ""Middle Landscapes"": Pastoral and the Secret of Art; Chapter 4: Searching for New Models of Femininty in the Modern World; 1. Femmes Fatales and Courtesans; 2. The Woman Artist; 3. Lost Ladies; Chapter Five- ""The Road is All"": Willa Cather's Representation of History; 1. Redefining the American Hero in One of Ours; 2. A Universal Self; 3. The Continuity and Ruptures of History

Chapter Six- The Era of Suspicion: Desire, Art and Religion1. Art for Art's Sake; 2. The Demise of Idealism; * Honore de Balzac; * Anatole France; * Emile Zola; 3. Shadows of Doubt and Desire; Chapter Seven- ""The Thing Not Named"": Willa Cather's Use of the French Language; 1. From a World of Interaction to Resistance and Solipsism; 2. A Frontier Language; 3. Limae Labor: The Quest for an Original Language; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-1206-9

OCLC:

799764547