Introduction: Willa Cather as icon / Guy Reynolds -- A commentary on An explanation of America / Robert Pinsky -- What happens to criticism when the artist becomes an icon? / Elsa Nettels -- Advertising Cather during the transition years (1914-1922) / Erika Hamilton -- Willa Cather and her public in 1922 / Janis P. Stout -- A portrait of an artist as a cultural icon : Edward Steichen, Vanity Fair, and Willa Cather / Michael Schueth -- Willa Cather and the Book-of-the-month Club / Mark J. Madigan -- Two or three human stories: O pioneers! and the Old Testament / Jessica G. Rabin -- Barbusse's L'enfer: a source for Coming, Aphrodite! and The novel démeublé / Richard C. Harris -- Recollecting emotion in tranquility: Wordsworth and Byron in Cather's My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart / Jonathan D. Gross -- Have I changed so much? : Jim Burden, intertextuality, and the ending of My Antonia / Timothy C. Blackburn -- Shadows in the rock: against interpretation / Richard H. Millington -- Cather's Shadows: solid rock and sacred canopy / John J. Murphy -- Cather's secular humanism: writing anacoluthon and shooting out into the eternities / Joseph R. Urgo -- Subsequent reflections on Shadows on the rock / Richard H. Millington, John J. Murphy, and Joseph R. Urgo -- Cather, Freudianism, and Freud / John N. Swift -- Cather's medical icon: Euclide Auclair, healing art, and the cultivated physician / Joshua Dolezal -- The dialectics of seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh: Double birthday and urban allegory / Joseph C. Murphy -- Antithetical icons? Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway and the first World War / Steven Trout -- Icons and Willa Cather / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- A critic who was worthy of her: the writing of Willa Cather: a critical biography / Robert Thacker.
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Explores Willa Cather's iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. This work states that 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.
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Cather studies.
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0803260113
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Willa Cather as cultural icon
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Cather, Willa,1873-1947-- Criticism and interpretation.