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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Distinctive contribution to 'Body Studies' Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural Modernism 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.

Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition

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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Distinctive contribution to 'Body Studies' Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 06/02/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474438261, 978-1474438261
    ISBN10: 1474438261

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Distinctive contribution to 'Body Studies' Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural Modernism 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.

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