Carnival in the novels of Willa Cather
Subtitle: when the world becomes grotesque
By: Mary C. Chinery ; with a foreword by Margaret Doane
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780773415508
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dancing in Willa Cather's early short fiction; title: Festivity and midsummer traditions in O pioneers!; title: The hired girls and the dancing pavilions in My Antonia; title: Failed festivities: parties in modern life; title: Cather's American revision of Maid Marian in a lost lady; title: Turning worlds and the laughter of December in My mortal enemy; title: Upsetting the carnival in Death comes for the archbishop; title: Sacred time and festive tradition in Shadows on the rock; title: The end of the festival in Sapphira and the slave girl.