Willa Cather

by Murphy, John J.; Palleau-papin, Francoise; Thacker, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780803230255
• ISBN10: 0803230257
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

The essays inCather Studies, Volume 8explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence. Cather's intellectual intercourse between the Old and the New World was a two-way street, moving both people and cultural mores between the two. But her worlds extended far beyond France, or even geographical locations. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influencestheological, aesthetic, even gastronomicaland examines her as tourist and traveler cautiously yet assiduously exploring a diverse range of places, ethnicities, and professions.

Author Biography

John J. Murphy is a professor emeritus at Brigham Young University. He is the volume editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop (Nebraska 1999) and coeditor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Shadows on the Rock (Nebraska 2005). Françoise Palleau-Papin teaches American literature at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle and is the author of This is Not a Tragedy: The Works of David Markson. Robert Thacker is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination and the coeditor of Cather Studies, Volume 4: Willa Cather’s Canadian and Old World Connections (Nebraska 1999).

 

Contributors: Manuel Broncano, Marc Chénetier, Joshua Dolezal, Mathieu Duplay, Stéphanie Durrans, Evelyn I. Funda, Cristina Giorcelli, Richard C. Harris, Melissa J. Homestead, Andrew Jewell, Jean-François Leroux, Mark Madigan, Ann Moseley, John J. Murphy, Joseph C. Murphy, Elsa Nettels, Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Françoise Palleau-Papin, Charles A. Peek, David H. Porter, Diane Prenatt, Ann Romines, Janet Sharistanian, Merrill Maguire Skaggs, John N. Swift, Robert Thacker, and Joseph Urgo.

Table of Contents

Editorial Policy	p. xi
Introduction: Translating Cather's Worlds	p. xiii
Prelude: The Prophetess and the Professor: Rescuing Cather from the Past	p. 1
Cather and France, Cather and French Literature
Sorbonne Keynote Address: Shadows of a Rock: Translating Willa Cather	p. 23
"The Bravest Act of His Life": Cather, Claude, and the Disadvantages of a Prairie Childhood	p. 46
Willa Cather in Paris: The Mystery of a Torn Photograph	p. 62
"Pershing's Crusaders": G. P. Cather, Claude Wheeler, and the AEF Soldier in France	p. 74
Claude Wheeler's Three Joans in One of Ours	p. 91
From St. Joan to Madame Joubert: Pilgrimage and Ethnic Memory	p. 110
Willa Cather's One of Ours, Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front, and the Literature of the Great War	p. 125
Willa Cather's La comédie humaine	p. 148
Willa Cather: Flaubert's Parrot?	p. 164
The Temptation of St. Peter: Flaubert's Saint Anthony and Cather's The Professor's House	p. 176
Chance Meetings in Southern France	p. 193
Great Facts and Aesthetic Techniques
"As in a Mirror and a Symbolism": Pascal's Mystical Theology and Cather's Divine Geometry in Death Comes for the Archbishop	p. 211
Cather's Ruskinian Landscapes: Typologies of the New World	p. 228
"The Thrill of His Own Poor Little Nerve": Art and the Ambivalence of Voice in My Mortal Enemy	p. 246
Writing and/as Weaving: Shadows on the Rock and La dame à la licorne	p. 263
Chocolate, Cannibalism, and Gastronomical Meaning in Shadows on the Rock	p. 282
Other Worlds, Other Places
Willa Cather in Space: Exile, Vagrancy, and Knowing	p. 297
Report from Cherry Valley, Where Willa Cather Was Very Likely "Overcome by a Feeling of Place"	p. 312
Edith Lewis as Editor, Every Week Magazine, and the Contexts of Cather's Fiction	p. 325
Picturing Their Ántonia(s): Mikolá¿ Ale¿ and the Partnership of W. T. Benda and Willa Cather	p. 353
Willa Cather's Hispanic Epiphanies and The Professor's House	p. 379
Losing and Finding "Race": Old Jezebel's African Story	p. 396
The Fire in the Ash: Dissent and Progressivism in Cather's "Double Birthday"	p. 412
Postlude: The Green Vase, the Yellow Orange, and the White Chapel: Trying to Define an Art	p. 428
Contributors	p. 444
Index	p. 451
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