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 less

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Joan Acocella is a staff writer for the New Yorker.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
813.52Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991900-1945
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PS3505 .A87 .Z545Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960
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