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Willa Cather's turns.(analysis of novelist Willa Cather's works)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20070101
Author:Yenor, Scott

Abstract: Examining Willa Cather's corpus of literary works reveals several phases of her illustrious career. After defending commercial culture in O Pioneers/and My Antonia, her later novels, especially her One of Ours, diagnose an unmediated split in the Western world illustrated by the experience of the Great War: the bourgeois commercial culture undermines aspirations for human greatness. Her later novels deepen this diagnosis and offer a way out in a return to a rooted community of believers living in the shadows of the Church.

Keywords: Cather, Catholicism, decadence, ...

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