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Reading Willa Cather's The Song Of The Lark, Evelyn Funda
Reading Willa Cather's The Song Of The Lark, Evelyn Funda
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
When Willa Gather sent her publisher the manuscript for The Song of the Lark in March 1915, she wrote him that unless he had lived in the West, he couldn’t possibly understand how much of the region she had put into the novel. It expressed the “My country, ’tis of thee” feeling that the West always gave her, and, she concluded, when she grew old and couldn’t explore the desert anymore, all she need do to recapture the sense of place would be to lift the lid of the novel (Willa Gather to Ferris Greenslet, March 28, 1915—I paraphrase here …
Ivan Doig, A. Carl Bredahl
Ivan Doig, A. Carl Bredahl
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
The big sky of the American West has the striking effect of focusing the viewer’s attention on both land and sky. On America’s Great Plains and High Desert, the sky dominates, forcing the eye away from the traditional Judeo-Christian vertical orientation and toward the horizon, generating a remarkable sense of balance. American Western narrative carries this story of balance and possibility. The Westerner finds himself accepting the landscape, indeed drawing upon it for physical and spiritual sustenance. Even the most imposing of surfaces—the landscape of eastern Utah or of the Dakota badlands—share a vulnerability with man as evidenced by erosion, …
Desert Literature: The Middle Period - J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, And Edwin Corle, Peter Wild
Desert Literature: The Middle Period - J. Smeaton Chase, Edna Brush Perkins, And Edwin Corle, Peter Wild
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Whether through religion, sex, or art, people crave excitement, to be elevated above ordinary experiences. A frequent theme both in our lives and in literature, this desire often involves the interplay of fantasy and reality. Is Hamlet indeed mad—does he actually see camels in the clouds—or is he quite coolly calculating, shrewdly manipulating people? For our part, when we fall in love, are we being led yet again by our delusions toward disaster?