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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Willa Cather
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Paperback. Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological". Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created. This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all-no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at ... Read more
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created. This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all-no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
Weight
193g
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803263321
SKU
V9780803263321
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99-1
Reviews for Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Like her novels...her criticism has an impeccable distinction of style-it is a criticism demeuble, uncluttered by jargon or pedantry. -Nation
Nation
[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and ... Read more
Nation
[Willa Cather] is saying the most interesting, most profound things about the art of writing, and the life of art, that have been said in our time certainly, and she does it with immense grace and ... Read more