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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... hands . The eyes and the hand , light and warmth , appear in the most casual moments — in the twinkling smile of Rosicky's eyes as he puts more coal in the fire or talks to Mary ; in the warmth of his hand as he extends a fee and a ...
... hands , too . After he dropped off to sleep , she sat holding his warm , broad , flexible brown hand . She had never seen another in the least like it . · Polly remembered that hour long afterwards ; it had been like an awakening to her ...
... hand . " Of Asiatic descent , Freymark is a wiry , sallow , unwholesome looking man , slight and meagerly built ... hands , of which he took the greatest care , were the yel- low , wrinkled hands of an old man , and shrivelled at the ...
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The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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