Description
Book SynopsisOffers a re-assessment of Willa Cather's career and artistic achievements. This work provides information on popular culture during and immediately after the Great War, and demonstrates the importance of literature as a cultural forum for addressing issues and ideas fundamental to American culture.
Trade Review“Tightly written and beautifully constructed. . . . A tribute to the creative spirit, which is beyond anything as fragile as the thinking mind.”—David Guy,
Seattle Times“
Memorial Fictions is a well researched, informative, and often stimulating book. . . . It provides valuable insight not only into
One of Ours but into an important chapter in American cultural history.”—Janis P. Stout,
South Carolina Review"
Memorial Fictions is a densely written book offering new insight on fiction about war."—
Virginia Quarterly Review"Extensively researched and written with Cather-like grace and clarity; it should be ranked among the very best critical studies of the past decade."—Joseph Urgo,
Modern Fiction Studies“
Memorial Fictions, a superb interdisciplinary study, thoroughly researched and cogently argued, suggests new ways of reading
One of Ours and
The Professor’s House as war literature. . . . A provocative and welcome addition to Cather studies.”—
The Michigan Historical Review
