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 no...

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.