Cather Studies, Volume 5 - 9780803264359

Cather Studies, Volume 5Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination\nAuthor(s): Cather Studies, Susan J. Rosowski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803264359, 978-0803264359\nSynopsis\nThe wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cather's unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cather's close observations of the natural world and how the environment proves, for most of these contributors, to be more than simply a setting for her characters. While it is certain that Cather's novels and short stories are deeply grounded in place, literary critics are only now considering how place functions within her narratives and addressing environmental issues through her [url] essays reintroduce us to a Cather who is profoundly identified with the places that shaped her and that she wrote about: Gle""