Description |
vi, 172 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Literate tourism and Cather's southwest / John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo -- Pt. 1. On Mesa Verde. Unwrapping the mummy: Cather's Mother Eve and the business of desire / John N. Swift ; Anasazi cannibalism: eating Eden / Ann Fisher-Wirth ; From Mesa Verde to Germany: the appropriation of Indian artifacts as part of Willa Cather's cultural critique in The professor's house / Matthias Schubnell ; Fear of a queer mesa?: faith, friendship, and national sexuality in "Tom Outland's story" / Marilee Lindemann ; Holy cities, poor savages, and the science culture: positioning The professor's house / John J. Murphy -- Pt. 2. The professor's house. The experience of meaning in The professor's house / Richard H. Millington ; Cather and the father of history / Merrill Maguire Skaggs ; Twain and Cather, once again / Tom Quirk -- Pt. 3. Death comes for the archbishop. Willa Cather and the Santos tradition in Death comes for the archbishop / Mary Chinery ; Writing culture: Willa Cather's southwest / Christopher Schedler ; Landscapes of the magical: Cather's and Anaya's explorations of the southwest / Manuel Broncano ; Multiculturalism as nostalgia in Cather, Faulkner, and U.S. culture / Joseph R. Urgo ; Afterword: From The professor's house to the roundhouse-- and beyond / David Harrell. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index. |
Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Knowledge and learning -- Southwestern States.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. |
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Women and literature -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Southwestern States -- In literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
Added Author |
Swift, John N.
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Urgo, Joseph R.
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ISBN |
0803245572 cloth alkaline paper |
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