Willa Cather's the song of the lark / edited by Debra L. Cumberland.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Cumberland, Debra L.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark , the latest in Rodopi’s Dialogue Series, is a collection of thirteen new essays exploring Cather’s 1915 classic novel about the coming-of-age of Thea Kronborg, a gifted young opera singer. As in previous editions in the Dialogue series, this volume on Cather’s novel offers analyses by both new and emerging scholars on complex and controversial issues. Specific areas of focus include: the role of the West and the railroad, race and race relations, the performing arts, as well as Cather’s complex construction of “culture” throughout the novel. Thea’s role as a possible feminist icon receives a fresh, insightful look, while other writers explore the nature of gift and gift-giving as well as the novel’s relation to other literary movements and genres. Scholars and the general public will welcome the ways these new critical insights offer a fresh look at this modern classic.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Genius and the (Un)Dead Girls: Consumption, Artistry, and the Female Body in The Song of the Lark / Meghan L. Burke -- Anatomy Is All: The Pathology of Voice in The Song of the Lark / Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg -- Künstlerroman Revised: Doubleness and Catharsis in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Erica D. Galioto -- Immeasurable Yearnings: The Artistic Legacy of the Landscape in Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Danielle Russell -- Place, Inspiration, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Annette R. Dolph -- A Place Apart: Transcending Social Topographies in The Song of the Lark / Tony R. Magagna -- The Kingdom of Culture: Culture, Ethnology and the “Feeling of Empire” in The Song of the Lark / Eric Aronoff -- Locating Mexicans in The Song of the Lark / Sarah Clere -- “You Are What You Read”: Wharton’s Undine Spragg and Cather’s Thea Kronborg / Julie Olin-Ammentorp -- A Tale of Two Sisters: The Influence of “Goblin Market” on Cather’s The Song of the Lark -- “The Inevitable Hardness of Human Life”: The Song of the Lark as Naturalism / Richard S. Pressman -- Willa Cather’s Transitional Novel: The Song of the Lark as a Romantic-Naturalistic Novel with a Modernist Center / Ann Moseley -- Gift Giving and Community in Cather’s The Song of the Lark / Beth E. Torgerson -- About the Authors -- Abstract of Arguments -- Index.