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From her childhood explorations with vivisection through her adult sense that human life was characterized by cyclical encounters with death and disaster, Willa Cather was devoted to making art in the face of violence. Twenty-three critics contribute to the fullest explication to date of Cather, violence, and the arts, exploring thematic representations of violence in war, suicide, sexual trauma, shame, and rage as well as aesthetic responses to violence through literary choreographies and encounters with kind and unkind things.

Violence, the Arts and Willa Cather

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    A Hardback by JOSEPH R. URGO, MERRILL MAGUIRE SKAGGS

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      Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2007
      ISBN13: 9781611473728, 978-1611473728
      ISBN10: 1611473721

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      Book Synopsis
      From her childhood explorations with vivisection through her adult sense that human life was characterized by cyclical encounters with death and disaster, Willa Cather was devoted to making art in the face of violence. Twenty-three critics contribute to the fullest explication to date of Cather, violence, and the arts, exploring thematic representations of violence in war, suicide, sexual trauma, shame, and rage as well as aesthetic responses to violence through literary choreographies and encounters with kind and unkind things.

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