The Troll Garden: Short StoriesU of Nebraska Press, 1 de jun. de 2000 - 176 páginas This collection of Willa Cather stories?her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career?is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication.øAs different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes?all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art. |
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... meaning and a careful arrangement of the tales to support the themes woven into the fabric of the text . The two epigraphs provide a clue to Cather's meaning and need to be looked at carefully . The quotation from Kingsley is taken from ...
... meaning and a careful arrangement of the tales to support the themes woven into the fabric of the text . The two epigraphs provide a clue to Cather's meaning and need to be looked at carefully . The quotation from Kingsley is taken from ...
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... meaning must have been apparent to Cather , who was herself fighting her way to literary success in a male- dominated world . But the poem is complex , and it contains other lev- els of meaning , one of which fits in well with the ...
... meaning must have been apparent to Cather , who was herself fighting her way to literary success in a male- dominated world . But the poem is complex , and it contains other lev- els of meaning , one of which fits in well with the ...
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... mean and petty . The story falls into the category of revolt - from- the - village literature and invites comparison with the earlier work of E. W. Howe or Hamlin Garland and , later , the fiction of Sinclair Lewis and the poems of ...
... mean and petty . The story falls into the category of revolt - from- the - village literature and invites comparison with the earlier work of E. W. Howe or Hamlin Garland and , later , the fiction of Sinclair Lewis and the poems of ...
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... meaning when one examines the great unfinished painting that gives the story its title ( see Notes to the Text ) . S. S. McClure's enthusiasm for his literary discovery notwith- standing , reviewers of The Troll Garden were not ...
... meaning when one examines the great unfinished painting that gives the story its title ( see Notes to the Text ) . S. S. McClure's enthusiasm for his literary discovery notwith- standing , reviewers of The Troll Garden were not ...
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Flavia and Her Artists | 7 |
The Sculptors Funeral | 32 |
The Garden Lodge | 46 |
A Death in the Desert | 57 |
The Marriage of Phaedra | 77 |
A Wagner Matinee | 94 |
Pauls Case | 102 |
Abbreviations | 122 |
Notes to the Text | 123 |
Textual Commentary | 131 |
Emendations | 137 |
Notes on the Emendations | 141 |
Table of Revisions | 145 |
Word Divisions | 175 |
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