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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... woman of dubious reputation . When a passionate exhorter from the fundamentalist Gospellers captures Eric's soul , Eric puts away his violin and becomes another one of the dull clods from the Old World , " sobered by toil and saddened ...
... woman of dubious reputation . When a passionate exhorter from the fundamentalist Gospellers captures Eric's soul , Eric puts away his violin and becomes another one of the dull clods from the Old World , " sobered by toil and saddened ...
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... woman poet against the sexual poli- tics of the nineteenth century one can only infer . The conscious or unconscious sexual - religious meaning must have been apparent to Cather , who was herself fighting her way to literary success in ...
... woman poet against the sexual poli- tics of the nineteenth century one can only infer . The conscious or unconscious sexual - religious meaning must have been apparent to Cather , who was herself fighting her way to literary success in ...
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... women of the South in their hairy arms and bore them down to their war ships . For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it , and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable ...
... women of the South in their hairy arms and bore them down to their war ships . For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it , and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable ...
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... woman who has earned a doctorate in philology . Imogen ( probably suggested by Cather's old Nebraska friend Dorothy Canfield , who had a Ph.D. in Romance languages ) , because of her childhood friendship with Flavia's husband , can ob ...
... woman who has earned a doctorate in philology . Imogen ( probably suggested by Cather's old Nebraska friend Dorothy Canfield , who had a Ph.D. in Romance languages ) , because of her childhood friendship with Flavia's husband , can ob ...
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... woman artist who wanted both marriage and a career . For Cather art came first , however , and she never seriously considered subordinating her work to marriage . " The Marriage of Phædra , " like " The Garden Lodge " and " Flavia and ...
... woman artist who wanted both marriage and a career . For Cather art came first , however , and she never seriously considered subordinating her work to marriage . " The Marriage of Phædra , " like " The Garden Lodge " and " Flavia and ...
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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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