The imaginative claims of the artist in Willa Cather's fiction : "possession granted by a different lease" /
Peck, Demaree C.,1959-
Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The explicable presence of "the thing not named" -- Alexander's bridge : Cather's bridge to the soul -- A pioneer in art : staking out the claim to consciousness in O pioneers! -- Thea Kronborg's "Song of myself" : the artist's imaginative inheritance in The song of the lark -- My Àntonia : the imaginative possession of childhood -- "Strong in attack but weak in defence" : defending the usurped territory in A lost lady -- "Letting something go" : the costs of self-possession in The professor's house -- "How to recover a bishopric" : Cather's recovery of the imaginative territory in Death comes for the archbishop -- "The ownership that was right" : imaginative bonds of slavery in Sapphira and the slave girl -- "Making it over until it becomes a personal possession" : Willa Cather and the reader.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Art and literature
Artists in literature.
Imagination.