Willa Cather

Birns (literature, Eugene Lang College) brings together 18 essays on the life and work of American writer Willa Cather. After an overview of her fiction, poetry, and criticism, literature scholars from North America and the Netherlands discuss various aspects of Cather's career, including her literary techniques, reception, the philosophical assumptions behind her works, Native American subtexts, and feminist, biographical, formal, and cultural approaches to studying such works as O Pioneers!, A Lost Lady, "Paul's Case," Death Comes for the Archbishop, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, One of Ours (in comparison to The Great Gatsby), and her short fiction. Some essays have been previously published. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)