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Willa Cather : the emerging voice by Sharon O'Brien; Oxford University Press is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first in-depth biography of Willa Cather in thirty years, and the first ever that fully integrates her life and work. The author of such classics as Death Comes to the Archbishop and O Pioneers! was a complex, passionate and gifted woman trying to forge a new kind of identity for herself as a woman and artist before there were adequate models for this kind of self. "Voice" is the metaphor Cather used to describe her attainment of literary identity and authority, a complex attainment for a woman writer who at first viewed femininity and creativity as incompatible. O'Brien asks two central How did Cather pass through a stage of male identification when she adopted male dress and posed as "William Cather" to become the first woman writer who created the first strong, autonomous and successful women heroes in American literature? How did she move from a literary apprenticeship she later associated with Jamesian imitation and inauthentic speech to a literary maturity in which she took "the road home" to her Nebraska past? The book makes full use of biographical and literary materials that have been slighted in previous Cather's personal and professional correspondence, famil

Author

Sharon O'Brien; Oxford University Press

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195041323

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography