The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's RomanticismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1986 - 284 páginas They Voyage Perilous is the first extended interpretation of Willa Cather's writing within the literary tradition of romanticism. Although she partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form.
Susan J. Rosowski argues that Willa Cather early took up the romantic challenge to vindicate imaginative thought in a world threatened by materialism, then pursued it with remarkable consistency throughout her career. The early essays and stories set out the terms of this life-long commitment. In the early novels Cather celebrates imaginative possibilities; in the middle ones she present increasingly desperate circumstances, asking what is left when the imagination is eclipsed by commercial values; in the late novels she writes in a Gothic mode, the dark counterspirit to optimistic romanticism.
The book is organized chronologically, with a chapter devoted to each novel. The chapters can be read independently or as part of a unified argument providing a larger picture. |
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... Sapphira's attempt to bring about the rape of her slave girl is unmistakably evil , as is the fact of slavery itself . By making attempted rape the main action of the novel , Cather concentrated on the threat of violence she had merely ...
... Sapphira . Built on the Mount Vernon pat- tern familiar to all Virginians , it is a symbol of the southern caste system of which Sapphira is a product . But this was a caste system that was dying in 1856 , and the Mill House , despite ...
... Sapphira orders her not to call again , and as Sapphira with- draws into proud isolation , silence descends . Here , too , Sapphira and the Slave Girl follows the Gothic pattern : the spectator / reader withdraws from the suspended ...
Contenido
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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