| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs |
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The "intrinsic beauty" of art / Ann Moseley and Sarah Cheney Watson. Part I : The aesthetic movement Exit smiling : the case for Paul's dandyism / Timothy W. Bintrim -- Innocence and experience, good and evil, and doppelgangers : decadent aesthetics in Cather's "Consequences," James's "The jolly corner," and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray / Sonja Froiland Lynch and Robert Lee Lynch -- Willa Cather's time machine : Alexander's bridge, H.G. Wells, and aesthetic temporality / Peter Betjemann -- Aestheticism and the dispossessed : Cather's dual Europe in America / Nicholas Birns -- Willa Cather's disenchanted epicurean : Godfrey St. Peter in The professor's house / Sarah Cheney Watson -- Part II : The visual arts The arts and crafts on Willa Cather's frontier / Leona Sevick -- Cather's "Twilight stage" : aestheticism, tonalism, and modernist sentiment / Joseph C. Murphy -- Willa Cather, the Nabi of Red Cloud / Mark Facknitz -- Blessed damsels, lost ladies, and Cather's real women / Angela Conrad -- Fernand Léger and Willa Cather's "Coming, Aphrodite!" / Jacqueline H. Harris -- Part III : Movement toward modernism "The nude had descended the staircase" : Katherine Anne Porter looks at Willa Cather looking at modern art / Janis P. Stout -- With the "hand, fastidious and bold" : bridging Walter Pater's aestheticism and Willa Cather's modernism / Olga Aksakalova -- From British aestheticism to American modernism : Cather's transforming vision / Jo Ann Middleton -- Part IV : Art and religion Willa Cather's sheltering art : Cather's cathedral and the Adams factor / John J. Murphy |
| Summary |
In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches-derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between art and religion-this collection will increase our understanding of Cather's aesthetic and lead to a better comprehension of her work and her life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Aesthetics
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| SUBJECT |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 fast |
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Aestheticism (Literature)
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Romanticism -- United States
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Aestheticism (Literature)
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Aesthetics
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Romanticism
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watson, Sarah Cheney, 1948-
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Moseley, Watson and Ann, 1947-
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| LC no. |
2012010592 |
| ISBN |
9781611475128 |
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1611475120 |
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1283624540 |
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9781283624541 |
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9786613936998 |
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6613936995 |
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