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This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.

Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.

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An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, " South by Southwest" offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.

A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather's work and Cather scholarship."Willa Cather and Material Culture" is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to c...

Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West.

?Stout's breadth of reading is impressive, her prose readable, and her method scholarly.?-Library Journal

Known for her celebrations of immigrants on the prairie, Willa Cather presented a wholesome view of a vanished America. In this new biography, Stout presents a Cather whose life and quietly modernist work fully reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. 27 illustrations.

Stout identifies five basic, recurring patterns of the journey narrative: exploration and escape, homeseeking, return, heroic quest, and wandering. Discussion of these patterns is based on considerations such as the direction of the journey, its motivation, and reference to historical precedents. Stout considers works that demonstrate the complex and interwoven patterns of the journey narrative. The more complex the work, the more intricately ...

A WIDE-RANGING AND ACCESSIBLE ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH POETRY, MUSIC, AND VISUAL ART BORN OF WORLD WARS I AND II."The most extraordinary feature of this study is its amazing scope. . . . Even for readers familiar with the terrain of 20th-century English war poetry, this book contains a treasure trove of new and interesting work. The same could be said for the exhaustive scholarship brought to bear on the discussion of the literature to ...

American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World Wars I and II.

Memoirs are tricky, especially when the author isn't widely known. But Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach-she organizes her memories around the houses she's lived in. "Sometimes, " she wrote, "I picture my life as a long row of houses." Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout's houses twine their way through this memoir along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages g...