Willa Cather and Her Critics; edited by James Schroeter

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968. First ed., second printing. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine(+) price clipped jacket.. xiii, 392 pages portrait 24 cm. "A bibliographical note": pages 383-387. Contents: America's coming-of-age" criticism: early views: Four reviews: Song of the lark; My Antonia; Youth and the bright Medusa; One of ours / H.L. Mencken -- "Willa Cather" / Carl Van Doren -- Distance, tone, point of view: the artistic problem: "Two novels of Willa Cather": One of ours; A lost lady / Edmund Wilson -- "A hamlet of the plains" / Sinclair Lewis -- "Willa Cather" / T.K. Whipple -- Reviews of four novels: "The lady as artist"; "Second best"; "The modest method of Willa Cather"; "The pathos of distance" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- "The classic artist" / Rebecca West -- "Willa Cather" / E.K. Brown -- "The short stories" / David Daiches -- Personal views, impressions, and reminiscences: "The novelist" / Elizabeth Moorhead -- Excerpts from Willa Cather: a memoir: June, 1913; Spring, 1916; March, 1925 / Elizabeth Sergeant -- "American-classic" / Louise Bogan -- Criticism on the barricades: The social temper of the 1930s: "The case against Willa Cather" / Granville Hicks -- "Willa Cather" / Lionel Trilling -- The search for historical perspective: Willa Cather / Alfred Kazin -- "Willa Cather: lady in the wilderness" / Maxwell Geismar -- "A writer's art" / George Schloss -- Willa Cather / Henry Steele Commager -- "Willa Cather: the tone of time" / Morton D. Zabel -- Thematic and mythic criticism: recent views: Excerpt from The bright Medusa / Howard Mumford Jones -- "Willa Cather: the paradox of success" / Leon Edel -- Interpretation of My Antonia / John H. Randall, III -- "On the composition of a novel" / Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom -- "Willa Cather and her first book" / Bernice Slote -- "Willa Cather and The professor's house" / James Schroeter.

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