Titlebook: Willa Cather; Susie Thomas Textbook 1990Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990 America.color.culture.death.Europe.feminism.opera

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,Willa Cather 1873–1947,, almost pathetically small lie, and yet a curious one for someone who was not apparently in the least vain. Nor was her name Willa. She was christened Wilella, but understandably disliked it. In adolescence she called herself William and in her sixties she still sometimes signed letters, Willie. Th

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From horse opera to homesteads:,merica’s literary establishment was determined not to recognise its existence. On the publication of .! (1913) one New York critic said, ‘I simply don’t give a damn what happens in Nebraska, no matter who writes about it.’ Perhaps nobody ever would, had it not been for Cather. Whereas Hardy’s Wessex

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,Time’s fool and ,reality. Paradoxically, though the title . suggests a more objective account, the novel explores the limitations of perception, the failure to recognise that vision is always partial, and the distortions which this imposes. Marian Forrester is a very different heroine from any Cather had created bef

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The golden girl of the West:,t. Glued to his dime novel, Jim declines to meet the Bohemian girl and her family, also travelling to Black Hawk, and is backed up by Jake who said ‘you were likely to get diseases from foreigners’ (5). The novel, it seems, is to inhabit the white, male, Protestant sphere of the classic Western.

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,Time’s fool and ,Cather portrayed a female character who is vulnerable, capricious, complex and almost wholly reliant on masculine admiration. Men’s eyes are the mirror in which she sees herself but they not only reflect, they can restrict and accuse or look the other way.