The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902, Volumen 1U of Nebraska Press, 1 ene 1970 - 528 páginas "One of the few really helpful words I ever heard from an older writer," Willa Cather declared in 1922, "I had from Sarah Orne Jewett when she said to me: 'Of course, one day you will write about your own country. In the meantime, get all you can. One must know the world so well before one can know the parish.'" Although Cather's first novel about her own country, O Pioneers!, did not appear until 1913, the process of knowing the world and of mastering her craft, so far as it can be traced in her published writing, already had been going on for some twenty years. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902, is the fourth in a series collecting the work of these years of experiment and discovery. More specifically, it offers a representative collection of Cather's nonfiction writing for newspapers and periodicals during her first decade as a professional writer. Selected from 520 articles and columns, the text is divided into three parts corresponding to major developments in Cather's career?the period from 1893 to 1896 when she first began to write regularly for Lincoln newspapers; the years in Pittsburgh when she was working for the Home Monthly and the Leader and sending her famous "Passing Show" column back to Nebraska; and the period from the spring of 1900 to 1903, when she freelanced in Pittsburgh and Washington, taught in a Pittsburgh high school, and made her first trip abroad. The text has been edited with three main objectives: 1) to enable the reader to trace Cather's development as a writer; 2) to group the material so that the reader interested in a particular subject?the theatre, or music, or literature, for example?can readily locate pertinent selections; and 3) to provide a context sufficient to relate these pieces to Willa Cather's life and to the times, and to suggest some of their connections with the body of her work. Chronologies have been included for each of the three parts; and the Bibliography is the most complete yet available for the for the nonfiction writing up to 1903. Not the least remarkable feature of this collection is the range and variety of forms and subject matter?reviews (of books, plays, operas, concerts, art exhibits, lectures), feature stories, interviews, straight reportage, columns of miscellaneous comment, and travel letters. Seemingly, with no apparent effort Willa Cather could adjust her sights to any assignment and any audience. And if it is astonishing that she could write so much about so many matters at so many levels, it is perhaps even more astonishing that so much of it was so good. Undeniably, however, the chief interest to the general reader and the peculiar value to the scholar of these journalistic writings reside in their manifold and crucial connections with Cather's later work and in the unparalleled insights they afford into the process by which a gifted writer becomes a great artist. |
Índice
A Note on the Editing 965 | 4 |
THE PROVINCES | 25 |
Atherton Ouida Chopin Morris 694 Stephen | 66 |
THE THEATRE 1 | 67 |
The Critics Province 68 Classical Drama 71 Lewis Morrisons Faust | 75 |
THE WORLD | 103 |
Acknowledgments 1019 | 129 |
nature made him an Englishman 129 | 134 |
Artist and Mother 199 Mary Anderson 200 Olive May | 204 |
GUEST EDITOR OF THE COURIER 836 | 208 |
Duse and Suppressed Emotion 206 The Training of Actors 210 Cora | 216 |
Belasco 219 Alexandre Dumas fils 222 The Frohman Interview | 224 |
Bronson Howards Shenandoah 228 That Old Twentythird | 246 |
Othello 251 The Season of 189596 254 | 254 |
My Literary Passions 258 The Art of Edgar Saltus 260 Selling | 286 |
Murgers Bohemia 292 Ruskins Creed 296 | 296 |
Some Personages of the Opera 755 A Philistine in the Gallery 760 | 138 |
like Caliban 139 Three Women | 157 |
THE MUSICAL WORLD 1 | 164 |
John Philip Sousa 610 Three Pianists 611 The Perfect Wagnerite 616 | 178 |
Blind Tom 165 Rubinsteins Legacy 167 Light Opera Stars 169 Married | 184 |
THE STAR SYSTEM IV 659 | 187 |
A Puritan Madame SansGêne 188 Clay Clement 190 Private Lives | 193 |
THE HOME MONTHLY | 305 |
Reviews | 333 |
Books Old and New January 1897 333 Old Books and | 345 |
February 1898 | 372 |
THE STAR SYSTEM III | 420 |
THE THEATRE III | 465 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews ..., Volumen 1 Willa Cather Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews ..., Volumen 1 Willa Cather Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |