Willa Cather as Cultural Icon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803260115)

Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather's iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. Not only are Cather's own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object. Through textual study of her published novels and her behind-the-scenes campaign and publicity writing in service of her novels, the reader comes to understand the extent to which, despite her legendary claims and commitment to privacy, Willa Cather helped to orchestrate her own iconic status.

Author: Cather Studies
ISBN-10: 0803260113
ISBN-13: 9780803260115
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 366
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.37w x 0.79d