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On the divide :

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0803237553

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U5002 T268 -2008

On the divide :

[Book]

the many lives of Willa Cather /

David Porter.

Lincoln :

University of Nebraska Press,

©2008.

1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-355) and index.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. Cather on Cather; 1. Three Autobiographies and an (Auto)interview; 2. Dust-Jacket Copy; Part II. Entering the Kingdom of Art; 3. The Quest to Excel; 4. Cather Caught in the Eddy; 5. Two Alter Egos; Part III. At Home on the Divide; 6. O Pioneers! and My Autobiography; 7. The Song of the Lark; 8. My Ántonia; Part IV. Confronting Medusa; 9. "Hard and Dry"; 10. Youth and the Bright Medusa; 11. One of Ours; Part V. "The Seeming Original Injustice"; 12. A Lost Lady

13. The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett14. The Professor's House; 15. My Mortal Enemy; Part VI. Recapitulation; 16. Cather Talks with Cather; Part VII. "In the End Is My Beginning"; 17. Death Comes for the Archbishop; 18. Fiction of the 1930s; 19. Cather, Jewett, and Not Under Forty; 20. Sapphira and the Slave Girl; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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On the Divide analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself, in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional activities and the very different private self she shared only with friends and family. Delving into Cather's correspondence and the little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David Porter provides new insight into the extent-and direction-of her control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on the author's emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to explore the many ways in which these "divides" in Cather's life found expression in her writing. Extending from Cather's early stories to her final novel, Porter's book documents the degree to which Cather's understanding of her own different and often conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles, enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex, and so profoundly human.

JSTOR

22573/ctt1dgm786

On the divide.

0803237553

Cather, Willa,1873-1947.

Cather, Willa,1873-1947.

Cather, Willa,1873-1947

Novelists, American-- 20th century, Biography.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Novelists, American.

CVL

LIT-- 004020

LIT004020

Porter, David H.,1935-2016.

20201203094500.0

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