Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2010
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-3203-3 (ISBN)

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Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark, the latest in Rodopi’s Dialogue Series, is a collection of thirteen new essays exploring Cather’s 1915 classic novel about the coming-of-age of Thea Kronborg, a gifted young opera singer. As in previous editions in the Dialogue series, this volume on Cather’s novel offers analyses by both new and emerging scholars on complex and controversial issues. Specific areas of focus include: the role of the West and the railroad, race and race relations, the performing arts, as well as Cather’s complex construction of “culture” throughout the novel. Thea’s role as a possible feminist icon receives a fresh, insightful look, while other writers explore the nature of gift and gift-giving as well as the novel’s relation to other literary movements and genres. Scholars and the general public will welcome the ways these new critical insights offer a fresh look at this modern classic.

Acknowledgements
Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction
Meghan L. Burke: Genius and the (Un)Dead Girls: Consumption, Artistry, and the Female Body in The Song of the Lark
Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg: Anatomy Is All: The Pathology of Voice in The Song of the Lark
Erica D. Galioto: Künstlerroman Revised: Doubleness and Catharsis in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark
Danielle Russell: Immeasurable Yearnings: The Artistic Legacy of the Landscape in Cather’s The Song of the Lark
Annette R. Dolph: Place, Inspiration, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark
Tony R. Magagna: A Place Apart: Transcending Social Topographies in The Song of the Lark
Eric Aronoff: The Kingdom of Culture: Culture, Ethnology and the “Feeling of Empire” in The Song of the Lark
Sarah Clere: Locating Mexicans in The Song of the Lark
Julie Olin-Ammentorp: “You Are What You Read”: Wharton’s Undine Spragg and Cather’s Thea Kronborg
Debra Cumberland: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Influence of “Goblin Market” on Cather’s The Song of the Lark
Richard S. Pressman: “The Inevitable Hardness of Human Life”: The Song of the Lark as Naturalism
Ann Moseley: Willa Cather’s Transitional Novel: The Song of the Lark as a Romantic-Naturalistic Novel with a Modernist Center
Beth E. Torgerson: Gift Giving and Community in Cather’s The Song of the Lark
About the Authors
Abstract of Arguments
Index

Reihe/Serie	Dialogue ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	90-420-3203-0 / 9042032030
ISBN-13	978-90-420-3203-3 / 9789042032033
Zustand	Neuware