Willa Cather / editor, Nicholas Birns. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2012. - x, 355 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Willa Cather / Biography of Willa Cather / The Paris review perspective / Transcending gender androgyny, artistry, and modernist subjectivity in Willa Cather's O pioneers! / Willa Cather's contradictory commitments: the antimodern impulse in the age of modernism / Parsifal lost in the wasteland: the modernist grail quest in Cather and Fitzgerald / Willa Cather's readers and critics / The enclosure of America: civilization and confinement in Willa Cather's O pioneers! / Is Cather's Paul a case? / Willa Cather and the Indian heritage / A chorus of gossips mistaking invasion for intimacy in Willa Cather's A lost lady / Willa Cather's A lost lady: the paradoxes of change / Hallowed ground: landscape as hagiography in Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop / Building the cathedral: imagination, Christianity, and progress in Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop / Willa Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl: extending the boundaries of the body / After the Christmas tree: Willa Cather and domestic ritual / A code of her own: attitudes toward women in Willa Cather's short fiction / Gender, sexuality, and writing in Plato and Cather / Nicholas Birns -- Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz -- Rebecca Brown for the Paris review -- Heather Alumbaugh -- Stephanie Stringer Gross -- Sarah Cheney Watson -- Tomas Pollard -- Melissa Ryan -- Loretta Wasserman -- David Stouck -- Evelyn Funda -- Susan J. Rosowski -- Pam Fox Kuhlken -- Nicholas Birns -- Angela M. Salas -- Ann Romines -- Jeane Harris -- Lisa B. Hughes.

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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.


Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

PS 3505 .A87 / Z93522 2011