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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... experience ( as I think was the case with all her novels ) ; from the way in which the news of her cousin's death at Cantigny brought suddenly before her an intense realization of his nature and his life , and their significance . " 5 ...
... experience . Largely through Niel Herbert , the " peephole character " she revised so extensively to get right , Cather presented this experience . 13 Unlike Jim Burden , Niel Herbert is not highly individual- ized . Cather provides ...
... experience " recollected in tranquillity . " ,, 20 For the reader , however , Marian Forrester continues to live in the novel , for in reading we , like Niel with his uncle's books , meet " living creatures , caught in the very behavior ...
Contenido
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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