The Troll Garden: Short StoriesU of Nebraska Press, 01/06/2000 - 176 من الصفحات This collection of Willa Cather stories?her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career?is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication.øAs different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes?all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art. |
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... in the Desert " 77 The Marriage of Phædra 94 A Wagner Matinee 102 Paul's Case 122 Abbreviations 123 Notes to the Text 131 Textual Commentary 137 Emendations 141 Notes on Emendations 145 Table of Revisions 175 Word Divisions.
... in the Desert " 77 The Marriage of Phædra 94 A Wagner Matinee 102 Paul's Case 122 Abbreviations 123 Notes to the Text 131 Textual Commentary 137 Emendations 141 Notes on Emendations 145 Table of Revisions 175 Word Divisions.
الصفحة xxv
... revise that manuscript or to write another novel . She could only manage a few stories during the next few years . Witter Bynner , the poet , who then was fresh out of Harvard and a lowly member of McClure's staff , had great faith in ...
... revise that manuscript or to write another novel . She could only manage a few stories during the next few years . Witter Bynner , the poet , who then was fresh out of Harvard and a lowly member of McClure's staff , had great faith in ...
الصفحة xxvi
... revisions of her sto- ries . When Dorothy Canfield Fisher , then a novelist herself , reviewed Youth and the Bright Medusa in 1921 , she commented on Cather's abil- ity to rework her fiction . She suggested that anyone who wanted to see ...
... revisions of her sto- ries . When Dorothy Canfield Fisher , then a novelist herself , reviewed Youth and the Bright Medusa in 1921 , she commented on Cather's abil- ity to rework her fiction . She suggested that anyone who wanted to see ...
الصفحة xxvii
... revisions for precision , such as " three " changing to " four " and a " dozen " switching to " many . " The revisions of " A Wagner Matinee " are more interesting , but the thrust of the changes is not towards artistic improvement ...
... revisions for precision , such as " three " changing to " four " and a " dozen " switching to " many . " The revisions of " A Wagner Matinee " are more interesting , but the thrust of the changes is not towards artistic improvement ...
الصفحة xxviii
... revisions in " A Death in the Desert " " that interested Fisher are very extensive and complex . This is the first story that Cather published that she was willing to reprint , but she never was satisfied with it . As the centerpiece in ...
... revisions in " A Death in the Desert " " that interested Fisher are very extensive and complex . This is the first story that Cather published that she was willing to reprint , but she never was satisfied with it . As the centerpiece in ...
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Flavia and Her Artists | 7 |
The Sculptors Funeral | 32 |
The Garden Lodge | 46 |
A Death in the Desert | 57 |
The Marriage of Phaedra | 77 |
A Wagner Matinee | 94 |
Pauls Case | 102 |
Abbreviations | 122 |
Notes to the Text | 123 |
Textual Commentary | 131 |
Emendations | 137 |
Notes on the Emendations | 141 |
Table of Revisions | 145 |
Word Divisions | 175 |
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