Sensing Willa Cather

Sensing Willa Cather: the writer and the body in transition

by Reynolds, Guy

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"A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre. 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, n…

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  • Full title :Sensing Willa Cather : the writer and the body in transition / Guy J. Reynolds.

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"A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre. 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."--Publisher description.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vii, 252 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:147443827X, 9781474438278
  • oclc:on1252426289
  • LC Classification:PS3505.A87
  • Dewey Decimal:813.52

Table of Contents

Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses -- Cather's Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism -- 'Sense-dwarfed': Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism -- Pale Shades and Living Colours: Cather's Looks -- Sound Affects: Music, Voice and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy and Lucy Gayheart -- Touch: Haptic Narrative in The Professor's House, Shadows on the Rock and Sapphira and the Slave Girl -- Cather, Taste and National Cuisines: The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock -- Cather's Smellscapes: Perfumes and Flowers, Disgust and Seduction -- Conclusion: The Body of the Author.

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Subjects

Cather, Willa Corps humain dans la littérature Criticism, interpretation, etc Human body in literature Sens et sensations dans la littérature Senses and sensation in literature

Writers

Reynolds, Guy

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