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Sensing Willa Cather : The Writer and the Body in Transition / Guy J. Reynolds.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century : MALN20CPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474438254
  • 9781474438278
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.52 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3505.A87 Z812 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses -- CHAPTER 2 Cather’s Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism -- CHAPTER 3 ‘Sense-dwarfed’: Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism -- CHAPTER 4 Pale Shades and Living Colours: Cather’s Looks -- CHAPTER 5 Sound Affects: Music, Voice and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy and Lucy Gayheart -- CHAPTER 6 Touch: Haptic Narrative in The Professor’s House, Shadows on the Rock and Sapphira and the Slave Girl -- CHAPTER 7 Cather, Taste and National Cuisines: The Professor’s House, Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock -- CHAPTER 8 Cather’s Smellscapes: Perfumes and Flowers, Disgust and Seduction -- CHAPTER 9 Conclusion: The Body of the Author -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- INDEX
Summary: A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather’s oeuvreDistinctive contribution to ‘Body Studies’Offers a new way to understand Cather’s relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses -- CHAPTER 2 Cather’s Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism -- CHAPTER 3 ‘Sense-dwarfed’: Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism -- CHAPTER 4 Pale Shades and Living Colours: Cather’s Looks -- CHAPTER 5 Sound Affects: Music, Voice and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy and Lucy Gayheart -- CHAPTER 6 Touch: Haptic Narrative in The Professor’s House, Shadows on the Rock and Sapphira and the Slave Girl -- CHAPTER 7 Cather, Taste and National Cuisines: The Professor’s House, Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock -- CHAPTER 8 Cather’s Smellscapes: Perfumes and Flowers, Disgust and Seduction -- CHAPTER 9 Conclusion: The Body of the Author -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- INDEX

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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather’s oeuvreDistinctive contribution to ‘Body Studies’Offers a new way to understand Cather’s relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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