Music in Willa Cather's Fiction

Name: Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
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ISBN: 9780803270992

ISBN-10: 0803270992

ISBN-13: 9780803270992

Edition: 2001

Authors: Richard Giannone, Philip Kennicott

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Music is everywhere in Willa Cather's fiction: as a subject, in the background, slyly commenting on the action, connecting characters to a distant world, or revealing their interior worlds. Not merely incidental or ornamental, though, music is intrinsic to Cather's work, a distinctive quality of her creation and expression, and it is in this light that Richard Giannone considers Cather's art.Music in Willa Cather's Fictionis the definitive study of its subject. The first work to examine the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather's narratives, Giannone's book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author's artistic sensibility, the evolution of…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments


Prologue



The Kingdom of the Soul



The Rialto and the Desert



Alexander's Bridge



O Pioneers!



The Lyric Artist



My ï¿½ntonia



One of Ours



A Lost Lady



The Professor's House



My Mortal Enemy



Death Comes for the Archbishop



The Shadow on Thte Rock



Die Winterreise


Epilogue


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index