Sensing Willa Cather : The Writer and the Body in Transition (Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century)

Reynolds, Guy J.

Edinburgh University Press（2023/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474438261
• DDC分類 813.52

Full Description

A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre

Distinctive contribution to 'Body Studies'
Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural Modernism

Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body.

Contents

AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations

1. Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses2. Cather's Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism3. 'Sense-dwarfed': Cather, Aestheticism and a new corporealism4. Pale Shades and Living Colors: Cather's looks5. Sound Affects: Music, Voice, and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart6. Touch: haptic narrative in The Professor's House, Shadows on the Rock, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl7. Cather, taste, and national cuisines: The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock8. Cather's smellscapes: perfumes and flowers; disgust and seduction9. Conclusion: the body of the author

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