Research Catalog

Title

Willa Cather : family, community, and history (the BYU symposium) / edited by John J. Murphy with Linda Hunter Adams and Paul Rawlins.

Author

BYU Cather Symposium (1988 : Brigham Young University)

Publication

Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University, Humanities Publications Center : Willa Cather Educational Foundation, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Murphy, John J. (John Joseph), 1933-
• Adams, Linda Hunter.
• Rawlins, Paul
• Brigham Young University
• Brigham Young University. Center for Family & Community History.

Description

322 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

BYU symposium.

Subject

• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > Family > Congresses
• Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• 1900-1999
• Novelists, American > 20th century > Family > Congresses
• Historical fiction, American > History and criticism > Congresses
• Community life in literature > Congresses
• Families in literature > Congresses
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• A selection of papers from the BYU Cather Symposium held Sept. 15-17, 1988, and sponsored in part by Brigham Young University's Center for Family and Community History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Poses of the mind, paeans of the heart : Cather's letters of life in the provences / Marilyn Arnold -- Dutiful daughter : Willa Cather and her parents / James Woodress -- "old Mrs. Harris" and the intergenerational family / Bruce P. Baker -- Loosing the tie that binds : sisterhood in Cather / Mary R. Ryder -- Willa Cather's homecomings : a meeting of selves / Cheryll Burgess -- Going home : "The sculptor's funeral," "The Namesake," and "Two friends" / Loretta Wasserman.
• Willa Cather's chosen family : fictional formations and transfornmations / Susan J. Rosowski -- Cather's complex tale of a simple man : "Neighbour Rosicky" / Merrill M. Skaggs -- "What was it ...?" : the secret of family accord in One of ours / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Fragmented families, fragmented lives in "Paul's case," My Antonia, and A lost lady / Mellanee Kvasnicka -- Deeper role of gender conflict in The professor's house / Stephen L. Tanner -- Professor's marriage / Alice Bell -- Lovers as mortal enemies / Eugene England -- What Margie knew / Robert K. Miller.
• For better and for worse : at home and at war in One of ours / Patricia Lee Yongue -- Sapphira and the slave girl : the daughter's plot / Ann Romines -- Mothers and daughters in "The Bohemian girl" and The song of the lark / Helen Fiddyment Levy -- Woman who would be artist in The song of the lark and Lucy Gayheart / Susan A Hallgarth -- Three in one woman in "Old Mr. Harris "/ Karen Stevens Ramonda -- My great-grandmother in Cather's pages / Sue Hart -- Community and connectedness in A lost lady / J. Gerard Dollar.
• Professor's house and the issues of history / David Stouck -- Cather's re-vision of American typology in My Antonia / Joseph Murphy -- Womanhood and art in My Antonia / Ann W. Fisher-Wirth -- Nebraska, 1883-1925 : Cather's version and history's / Robert W. Cherny -- Willa Cather and Francis Parkman : novelistic portrayals of Colonial New France / Wilbur R. Jacobs -- Death ccomes for the Archbishop : a novel way of making history / Ted J. Warner -- Cather's controversial portrayal of Martinez / Lance Larsen -- Family affair at Mesa Verde / David Harrell.
• Conflicting communities and Cather's artists : the absorbing vision / Kevin A. Synnott -- 'Scripts and patterns : stories as "Equipment for living" -- and dying / William Monroe -- Faith community in Death comes for the Archbishop / John J. Murphy.

ISBN

0842522999 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^90085382^

OCLC

• 23177713
• SCSB-11064001

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library