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Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century Ser.: Sensing Willa Cather : The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-101474438253
ISBN-139781474438254
eBay Product ID (ePID)5050099387
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSensing Willa Cather : the Writer and the Body in Transition
Publication Year2021
SubjectDrama, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorGuy J. Reynolds
SeriesModern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
ReviewsThis book reveals Cather as "most sensuous of writers." From her first story, "Peter," about a disabled, displaced violinist, to her last novel, populated by enslaving and enslaved bodies, she focuses on "bodies in transition" to whom the five senses are crucial. Drawing from recent work in queer, disability, aging and food studies, Reynolds gives us fresh, revelatory readings, especially of Cather's last three novels, each of which explores a major theme in U.S. culture--"colony, performance, race"--through close attention to bodies. An indispensable, engrossing, and transformative book!, [...] this is a rich, complexly conceived interpretive project--though it is a book that itself reads, and reads Cather, with a deft and approachable lucidity. Sensing Willa Cather is one of those rare critical works that is interesting both for what it has to say about its subject and for how it goes about its intellectual enterprise. [...] Reynolds has given us a new conception of Cather's writing, one that already seems as necessary as it is novel., In his insightful new study, Sensing Willa Cather , Guy Reynolds offers nothing short of a revelatory new way to encounter Cather's work. Her richly nuanced scapes--their visual details, their tapestries of sounds and tastes and smells and tactilities--are explored here with prodigious care and originality. This marvelous book opens up the entire sensorium of Cather's world both to new readers and those who have read her deeply yet are open to pondering avenues that lead to an even richer understanding of this quintessential American writer.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813.52
Table Of ContentAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. Willa Cather in the Realm of the Senses2. Cather's Bodily Art and the Emergence of Modernism3. 'Sense-dwarfed': Cather, Aestheticism and a new corporealism4. Pale Shades and Living Colors: Cather's looks5. Sound Affects: Music, Voice, and Silence in The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy, and Lucy Gayheart6. Touch: haptic narrative in The Professor's House, Shadows on the Rock, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl7. Cather, taste, and national cuisines: The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock8. Cather's smellscapes: perfumes and flowers; disgust and seduction9. Conclusion: the body of the authorBibliographyIndex
SynopsisA radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the transition from late Victorian to Modernist modes of representation. The book presents suggestive new ways of understanding her depictions of disability, male bodies and Native American culture, not to mention her narratives of whiteness and of the black body.
LC Classification NumberPS3505.A87
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