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Willa Cather and Others de Jonathan Goldberg

Willa Cather and Others

Autor Jonathan Goldberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2001
After many years as one of the premier scholars of English Renaissance literature, Jonathan Goldberg turns his attention to the work of American novelist Willa Cather. With a focus on Cather s artistic principle of the thing not named, Willa "Cather and Others" illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused.
The others referred to in the title are women, for the most part Cather s contemporaries, whose artistic projects allow for points of comparison with Cather. They include the Wagnerian diva Olive Fremstad, renowned for her category-defying voice; Blair Niles, an ethnographer and novelist of jazz-age Harlem and the prisons of New Guinea; Laura Gilpin, photographer of the American Southwest; and Pat Barker, whose "Regeneration" trilogy places World War I writers and questions of sexuality and gender at its center. In the process of studying these women and their work, Goldberg forms innovative new insights into a wide range of Cather s celebrated works, from "O Pioneers "and "My Antonia "to her later books "The Song of the Lark," "One of Ours, The Professor s House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, "and "Sapphira and the Slave Girl."
By applying his unique talent to the study of Cather s literary genius, Jonathan Goldberg makes a significant and new contribution to the study of American literature and queer studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822326724
ISBN-10: 0822326728
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 14 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Rev and Expande.
Editura: Duke University Press

Recenzii

"In this elegantly written and intensely passionate book, Goldberg displays an extraordinary attentiveness to the suggestive silences that inevitably open out beyond the surface of Cather's deceptively translucent prose. Refusing to use those silences to name too simply the very thing Cather herself insisted could not be named, Goldberg reads the many intricacies, twists, and crossings within the fabric of her writing for the way they demonstrate the recalcitrant, manifestly unpredictable ways in which gender and sexuality intersect. This is a moving, intelligent book."- Jan Radway, author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire "Willa Cather and Others models queer criticism as a practice of patient intelligence and acuity: it is painstaking and suggestive, polemical about criticism and respectful of Cather's locutions and circumlocutions. Goldberg's eloquent work on Cather's reticent texts seeks to restrain readerly impatience for clarities of sexuality, aesthetic value, and truth. It elaborates beautifully ideas about the relation of the explicit to the inexplicit, of heterosexuality to the spaces, songs, glances, and objects of sexualities that go unnamed while resonating everywhere in Cather's work."- Lauren Berlant, author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City"Willa Cather and Others is an elegant book, the most sophisticated treatment yet of gender and sexuality in Cather's work. In writing about the elusive beauty of Cather's work, Goldberg manages to capture its beauty without losing the sense of elusiveness it creates."- Michael Warner, author of The Trouble With Normal
"In this elegantly written and intensely passionate book, Goldberg displays an extraordinary attentiveness to the suggestive silences that inevitably open out beyond the surface of Cather's deceptively translucent prose. Refusing to use those silences to name too simply the very thing Cather herself insisted could not be named, Goldberg reads the many intricacies, twists, and crossings within the fabric of her writing for the way they demonstrate the recalcitrant, manifestly unpredictable ways in which gender and sexuality intersect. This is a moving, intelligent book."- Jan Radway, author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire "Willa Cather and Others models queer criticism as a practice of patient intelligence and acuity: it is painstaking and suggestive, polemical about criticism and respectful of Cather's locutions and circumlocutions. Goldberg's eloquent work on Cather's reticent texts seeks to restrain readerly impatience for clarities of sexuality, aesthetic value, and truth. It elaborates beautifully ideas about the relation of the explicit to the inexplicit, of heterosexuality to the spaces, songs, glances, and objects of sexualities that go unnamed while resonating everywhere in Cather's work."- Lauren Berlant, author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City "Willa Cather and Others is an elegant book, the most sophisticated treatment yet of gender and sexuality in Cather's work. In writing about the elusive beauty of Cather's work, Goldberg manages to capture its beauty without losing the sense of elusiveness it creates."- Michael Warner, author of The Trouble With Normal

Notă biografică

Jonathan Goldberg is Sir William Osler Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor of "Queering the Renaissance, " also published by Duke University Press, and is the author of numerous other books, including "Sodometries" and "Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples."

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""Willa Cather and Others" is an elegant book, the most sophisticated treatment yet of gender and sexuality in Cather's work. In writing about the elusive beauty of Cather's work, Goldberg manages to capture its beauty without losing the sense of elusiveness it creates."--Michael Warner, author of "The Trouble With Normal"

Descriere

Queer theory employed in a sympathetic reading of Cather in all her complexity, and in relation to several of her contemporaries.