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Cather

Willa (Sibert). 1873--1947, US novelist, whose works include O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918)

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Scholars and readers associate Willa Cather with Nebraska and Pittsburgh, Ernest Hemingway and F.

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict

"Two Friends," a representative story by Cather, written in 1931 but tacitly alluding to events that occurred decades earlier, first appeared in the Woman's Home Companion, an Ohio magazine that catered to farmers and homemakers.

THE TWO WORLDS OF WILLA CATHER AND ELINOR WYLIE

Through an analysis of realist novels by Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, Polley argues that realism engages romanticism--specifically, the transcendental theories of Ralph Waldo Emerson--and holds earlier romantic ideas in a dialogic discourse with realism.

Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather

Now entering his final year in the evening program at UM Carey, Cather said a degree to expand his skillset has become a new way of thinking and allowed him to make contacts throughout the region.

Non-traditional law students seek new skills, challenges

Anne Cather & husband Edward Etzel, Carl H Cather, III, & his wife Victoria Liberatore, Tyler Cather, who predeceased him, and Joan Carol Cather, all of Morgantown.

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The first section "Translation" features writers that reflect on Cather's curious devaluation of My Antonia's reception over time; translation issues in Germany, Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novel's vision of Antonia's acculturation.

Something Complete and Great

As in her earlier novels, Willa Cather's 1925 novel The Professor's House develops keen insights into US culture as it presents a complex world marked by status anxiety.

Making distinctions: economic and cultural capital in Willa Cather's The Professor's House

When Cather was only ten years old, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska.

The importance of the Midwestern Settingin Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark and her other novels

By working together with the Dowell, Cather and other GNM and TM members were able to draw up a better solution for all.

Advocate corner brad gather: leading by example

"Libby Larsen's Margaret Songs: A Musical Portrait of Willa Cather's Margaret Elliot." DMA Dissertation, Arizona State University, 2013, 73 pages; ProQuest3559338.

Recent research in singing

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout.

The truth of experience

Willa Cather's reluctance to categorize Death Comes for the Archbishop as a novel is telling; in a letter to The Commonweal she says that she "prefer[s] to call it a narrative" (On Writing 12), and she draws aesthetic parallels between her text and the frescoes detailing the life of St.

Smooth structures: narrative form as ethical contact in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop