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Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is based. Cather was a multifaceted cultural critic, immersing herself in the arts, broadly defined: theater and opera, art, narrative, craft production. Willa Cather and the Arts shows that Cather repeatedly engaged with multiple forms of art, and that even when writing about the past she was often addressing contemporary questions.
The essays in this volume are informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence. The collection begins by exploring the ways Cather encountered and represented high and low cultures, including Cather's use of "racialized vernacular" in Sapphira and the Slave Girl. The next set of essays demonstrates how historical research, often focusing on local features in Cather's fiction, contributes to our understanding of American culture, from musicological sources to the cultural development of Pittsburgh. The final trio of essays highlights current Cather scholarship, including a food studies approach to O Pioneers! and an examination of Cather's use of ancient philosophy in The Professor's House. Together the essays reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.
Contents
Contents
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Introduction: Willa Cather and the Arts
Guy J. Reynolds
1. "A Lot of Things": The Value of the Vernacular in Shadows on the Rock
Diane Prenatt
2. "Down by de Canebrake": Willa Cather, Sterling A. Brown, and the Racialized Vernacular
Janis P. Stout
3. The Singer as Artist: Willa Cather, Olive Fremstad, and the Artist's Voice
Sarah L. Young
4. Cather's Evolving Ear: Music Reheard in the Late Fiction
John H. Flannigan
5. Memory and Image: Graphemics for a New Frontier Icon in My Ántonia
Joyce Kessler
6. "Paul's Case" and Pittsburgh: Industry and Art in the Great Manufacturing Town
James A. Jaap
7. Under the White Mulberry Tree: Food and Artistry in Cather's Orchards
Stephanie Tsank
8. "The Passionless Bride": Love, Loss, and Lucretius in The Professor's House
Matthew Hokum
9. Advertising Willa Cather as Product
Erika K. Hamilton
Contributors
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