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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... woman now , not a lovely girl ; but she still had that something which fires the imagination , could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or ges- ture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things . She had only to stand ...
... woman who , bitterly aware she has no children , admires another woman's baby . Such generosity ignores limitations of age , culture , education , and personality . Victoria regrets her youthful figure and freedom , yet she couldn't ...
... woman's body , announcing a sexuality for which she was unprepared . In creating Lucy , Cather was writing as a woman of the tragedy brought on a child by being female , and in doing so , she contributed to what Ellen Moers discussed as ...
Contenido
The Discovered Self | 3 |
O Pioneers Willa Cathers New World Pastoral | 45 |
The Growth of an Artists Mind | 62 |
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