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Willa Cather and the American Southwest

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The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather's aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. They seemed not so much finished places as things unassembled, more like countries "still waiting to be made into [a] landscape." Cather's fascination with the Southwest led to its presence as a significant setting in three of her most ambitious novels: The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the Archbishop . ...

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Willa Cather and the American Southwest 2004, University of Nebraska Press

ISBN-13: 9780803293168

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Willa Cather and the American Southwest 2002, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803245570

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