Violence, the arts, and Willa Cather /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Willa Cather International Seminar Red Cloud, Neb. and University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Other Authors:	Urgo, Joseph R., Skaggs, Merrill Maguire
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]
Series:	Willa Cather series.
Subjects:	Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses. Violence in literature > Congresses. Arts in literature > Congresses.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

A note on the 2005 International Willa Cather Seminar / Merrill Maguire Skaggs and Joseph R. Urgo
Introduction : existential terror in Cather / Joseph R. Urgo
Over there from over here : the authorial reader and One of ours / Richard C. Harris
"Do talk to me" : violent deaths and isolated survivors in Cather's novels / Margaret Doane
Violence, silence, and privacy : the problem of "family feeling" in Cather's late fiction / Ann Romines
Violence and childhood in Cather's fiction / Elsa Nettels
Touching the note and passing on : violence in Cather's picture of the West / Janis P. Stout
Outland over there : Cather's cosmopolitan West / Geneva Gano
From larceny to suicide : the Denny Case and "Paul's case" / Timothy W. Bintrim and Mark J. Madigan
She's not a puzzle so arbitrarily solved : Willa Cather's violent self-construction / Robert Thacker
"At the center of her mystery" : sexual trauma and Willa Cather / J. Gabriel Scala
Shame and rage : a generative pairing in Willa Cather's The song of the lark / Stephen Monroe
Cather's violent assimilation of Henry James's art / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
"Kind things" : recessional objects and Cather's materialism / John N. Swift
Cather's "elastigirls" : reckoning with sex/gender violence in woman artist stories / Marilee Lindemann
Ernestine Schumann-heink : the diva in One of ours / Becky Faber
Dancing behind the veil : Willa Cather's literary choreography in A lost lady / Wendy K. Perriman
Repatching the tailor : violence on Rosicky's urban frontiers / Joseph C. Murphy
Subverting the male gaze : Willa Cather's Lena Lingard and William Faulkner's Lena Grove / Sarah C. Gardam
Violent art, sacred art : artists and sacrifice in Willa Cather / Frances Zauhar
Violations and fatal apertures : Cather's "heathenish" aesthetics / Michele Aina Barale
"I like to be like a man" : female masculinity in O pioneers! and My Ántonia / Daniel Worden
Prophecy, violence, and the old order in the Archbishop / John J. Murphy
From violence to art : Willa Cather caught in the eddy / David H. Porter.