The World and the Parish, Volume 2: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

by Willa Cather, William M. Curtin

Overview

Not the least remarkable feature of this collection is the range and variety of forms and subject matter--reviews (of books, plays, operas, concerts, art exhibits, lectures), feature stories, interviews, straight reportage, columns of miscellaneous comment, and travel letters. Seemingly, with no apparent effort Willa Cather could adjust her sights to any assignment and any audience. And if it is astonishing that she could write so much about so many matters at so many levels, it is perhaps even more astonishing that so much of it was so good. Undeniably, however, the chief interest to the general reader and the peculiar value to the scholar of these journalistic writings reside in their manifold and crucial connections with Cather's later work and in the unparalleled insights they afford into the process by which a gifted writer becomes a great artist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803215450
Publisher:	Nebraska
Publication date:	11/01/1970
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

As associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, William M. Curtin holds his degrees from St. John's University, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895