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Willa Cather and the American Southwest by John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Willa Cather and the American Southwest about?

The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather?s aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. They seemed not so much finished places as things unassembled, more like countries ?still waiting to be made into [a] landscape.? Cather?s fascination with the Southwest led to its presence as a significant setting in three of her most ambitious novels: The Song of the Lark, The Professor?s House, and Death Co

Who reads Willa Cather and the American Southwest?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press ; Combined Academic
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780803245570
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Western, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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