Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
by Joan Acocella
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Expanding on her absorbing and controversial 1995 New Yorker article, Joan Acocella examines the politics of Willa Cather criticism: how Cather's work has been seized upon and often distorted by critics on both the left and the right. Acocella argues that the central element of Cather's works was not a political agenda but rather a tragic vision of life. This beautifully written book makes a significant contribution to Cather studies and, at the same time, points out the follies of political show more criticism in the study of all literature. show lessTags
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3505 .A87 .Z545 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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