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- Cather Studies, Volume 7: Willa Cather as Cultural Icon
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Cather Studies
summary
Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. Not only are Cather’s own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object. Through textual study of her published novels and her behind-the-scenes campaign and publicity writing in service of her novels, the reader comes to understand the extent to which, despite her legendary claims and commitment to privacy, Willa Cather helped to orchestrate her own iconic status.
Table of Contents
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- Editorial Policy
- p. vii
- Introduction: Willa Cather as Icon
- pp. ix-xi
- Willa Cather and Her Public in 1922
- pp. 27-45
- Shadows on the Rock: Against Interpretation
- pp. 165-173
- Cather, Freudianism, and Freud
- pp. 212-228
- Icons and Willa Cather
- pp. 288-302
- Contributors
- pp. 329-333
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803209916
Related ISBN(s)
9780803260115
MARC Record
OCLC
647128047
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2012-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No