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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... youth of the wayward sister . Just what Cather made of this allegory that modern feminists read as a powerful cry by a Victorian woman poet against the sexual poli- tics of the nineteenth century one can only infer . The conscious or ...
... youth of the wayward sister . Just what Cather made of this allegory that modern feminists read as a powerful cry by a Victorian woman poet against the sexual poli- tics of the nineteenth century one can only infer . The conscious or ...
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... Youth and the Bright Medusa and her Novels and Stories . It captures the very tone of Pittsburgh in 1905 and was compounded , she remembered in 1943 , of two elements : the first was a boy she once had had in her Latin class , a nervous ...
... Youth and the Bright Medusa and her Novels and Stories . It captures the very tone of Pittsburgh in 1905 and was compounded , she remembered in 1943 , of two elements : the first was a boy she once had had in her Latin class , a nervous ...
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... youth , gaiety , golden tal- ent . His death three years later was a bitter blow , and the story cap- tures some of her feelings about him . She must have written it soon after he died . Cather placed this story in the middle of the ...
... youth , gaiety , golden tal- ent . His death three years later was a bitter blow , and the story cap- tures some of her feelings about him . She must have written it soon after he died . Cather placed this story in the middle of the ...
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... Youth and the Bright Medusa and The Novels and Stories . Despite Cather's disclaimers , it is a memorable story and one of the best productions of her early career . " A Wagner Matinee " reverses the situation in " The Sculptor's Fu ...
... Youth and the Bright Medusa and The Novels and Stories . Despite Cather's disclaimers , it is a memorable story and one of the best productions of her early career . " A Wagner Matinee " reverses the situation in " The Sculptor's Fu ...
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... Youth and the Bright Medusa in 1921 , she commented on Cather's abil- ity to rework her fiction . She suggested that anyone who wanted to see how a real artist could " smooth away crudeness without rooting out the life " of a story ...
... Youth and the Bright Medusa in 1921 , she commented on Cather's abil- ity to rework her fiction . She suggested that anyone who wanted to see how a real artist could " smooth away crudeness without rooting out the life " of a story ...
Conteúdo
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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