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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-100803263325

ISBN-139780803263321

eBay Product ID (ePID)1141710

Product Key Features

Number of Pages156 Pages

Publication NameWilla Cather on Writing : Critical Studies on Writing As an Art

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAuthorship, General, American / General, Literary

Publication Year1988

TypeTextbook

AuthorWilla Cather

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN87-030078

Reviews"[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity."-Katherine Anne Porter, New York Times , "Like her novels...her criticism has an impeccable distinction of style-it is a criticism démeublé, uncluttered by jargon or pedantry."- Nation, "Like her novels.her criticism has an impeccable distinction of style-it is a criticism di'meubli?, uncluttered by jargon or pedantry."-Nation, "[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity."-Katherine Anne Porter,New York Times , "[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity."-Katherine Anne Porter, New York Times, "Like her novelsâ€¦her criticism has an impeccable distinction of style-it is a criticism dÃ©meublÃ©, uncluttered by jargon or pedantry."-Nation, "Like her novelsâ€¦her criticism has an impeccable distinction of style-it is a criticism dÃ©meublÃ©, uncluttered by jargon or pedantry."- Nation, "[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity."-Katherine Anne Porter,New York Times, "[Willa Cather is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and dignity."-Katherine Anne Porter, New York Times

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Synopsis"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all-no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself-a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.", "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing , a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all--no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself--a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.", "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others.

LC Classification NumberPS3505.A87W5 1988