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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... tells of one night in which , before leaving their hometown to explore the world , young friends camp on a sandbar ... telling only of a physical one , cannot answer . 11 The narrator builds to an inset story of an enchanted bluff , a ...
... tell of blindness . When Marie tells Emil she will call him if she sees a snake , she reveals little about the danger of snakes but much about her own inability to see the danger of Emil . Similarly , Marie tells Emil if he " had any ...
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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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