Willa Cather and France
Author: Robert James Nelson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252015021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert James Nelson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252015021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-05
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Shadows on the Rock" is a historical novel written by the American author Willa Cather. The book was published in 1931 and is set in the 17th century in colonial New France, specifically in Quebec City. The novel focuses on the lives of the early French settlers and the challenges they faced while establishing a life in the rugged wilderness of North America. The central character is Cécile Auclair, a young girl who, with her father, makes the difficult journey from France to Quebec to join her mother. The novel provides a vivid portrayal of daily life, relationships, and the interactions between the French settlers and the indigenous people of the region. "Shadows on the Rock" is known for its rich historical detail and evocative descriptions of the landscape and characters. Willa Cather's storytelling captures the enduring spirit and resilience of the early settlers in North America. The novel is celebrated for its historical accuracy and its exploration of the human experience in a challenging and often harsh environment.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780803263260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cather, the Nebraska-born novelist, describes her childhood, her career as a writer, and the influences on her work
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1649741847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Author: Stéphanie Durrans
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780773452398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study to address the complex issues involved in Cather's relationship to France and to the various French writers (Zola, Flaubert, Sand, France, Merimee, and Loti) that keep cropping up in her literary and journalistic output. It traces the intellectual and artistic roots that nourished Cather's writing.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780803263338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her the world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902 journey, coming ten years before she made her literary mark with O Pioneers!, was unrepeatable, special in its effects on her artistic development. After disembarking at Liverpool, she toured the Shropshire country, got swallowed up by London, and then crossed the Channel to other skies—to Rouen, Paris, and the Riviera. These fourteen travel articles, written for a newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska, and eventually collected and published in book form in 1956, are striking for first impressions colored by a future novelist's feeling for history and for beauty in unexpected forms.
Author: Stéphanie Durrans
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780773412064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first full-length study to address the complex issues involved in CatherOCOs relationship to France and to the many French writers (Zola, Flaubert, Sand, France, M(r)rim(r)e, Loti, etc.) that keep cropping up in her literary and journalistic output. The author traces the intellectual and artistic roots that nourished CatherOCOs writing and examines the dynamic relationship between American and French literatures."
Author: Gary Brienzo
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780945636663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Willa Cather's Transforming Vision: New France and the American Northeast explores Cather's search for meaning and a domestic center, in particular as her search was influenced by her feelings for New France and the American Northeast. Including biography, critical overview, and primary research into both Cather's writing and some of her most unusual historical sources, this study focuses on Shadows on the Rock, while incorporating this pivotal novel into the larger pattern of Cather's growing need for belonging and order. Shadows on the Rock, set in the city of Quebec ("Kebec") at the end of the seventeenth century, is Cather's fullest expression of love for French culture and its adaptation to New World soil. But more than a mere extolling of what Mme. Auclair in Shadows proudly calls "our way" - a skill with all things domestic that, she boasts, renders the French "the most civilized people in Europe" - this novel is a statement of faith in the ability of both individuals and larger societal orders to work together for the creation of an all-encompassing whole. Writing at mid-life, after the recent illnesses and deaths of her parents, Cather could posit in her story of New France a familial order much larger than the domestic heart of her earlier masterpiece, My Antonia. In all of Quebec, as in the incomplete but fruitful home of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his daughter Cecile, life is sustained by a merging of gender and social roles, as a bishop can become the symbolic head of an entire church as well as of a troubled family, and a bellicose count can play as warm and nurturing a role as the gentlest of parents.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.