Music in Willa Cather's Fiction

by Richard Giannone

Book Overview

Music is everywhere in Willa Cather's fiction: as a subject, in the background, slyly commenting on the action, connecting characters to a distant world, or revealing their interior worlds. Not merely incidental or ornamental, though, music is intrinsic to Cather's work, a distinctive quality of her creation and expression, and it is in this light that Richard Giannone considers Cather's art. Music in Willa Cather's Fiction is the definitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803270992
• ISBN13: 9780803270992
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"