Burden. St. Peter. And latour: cather's modernist traditionalist personae  

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Murphy, John J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fu jen studies: literature & linguistics no. 42 (May 2009), page 27-38.
Topik: Willa Cather. My Antonia. The Professor's House. Death Comes for the Archbishop; persona

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This essay traces through Cather"s three most important novels the development o\' persona characters reflecting Gather herself at various stages of her career. fhrough narrator Jim Burden in My Antonia (1918). Cather records her own love-hate relationship with the Nebraska of her childhood. In The Professor's House (1925). the story of Godfrey St. Peter expresses her deep malaise over American culture after World War 1 and the attraction of the American Southwest and medieval Catholicism for escape and social commentary. In Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). Cather realizes in Archbishop Jean Marie Latour not only the perfect priest and model artist but her most fulfilled protagonist, who like Antonia Shimerda. the icon created by Jim Burden for survival purposes. becomes the founder of a community, but one set in New Mexico rather than Nebraska and modeled on a medieval worldview. In the Archbishop Cather happily fused her inspirational character and her protagonist. The essay derives from a lecture delivered to a graduate seminar on Willa Cather and William Faulkner. English Department. Fu Jen Catholic University. November 20. 2008.

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