SOURCE: Harris, Jeane. “Aspects of Athene in Willa Cather's Short Fiction.” Studies in Short Fiction 28, no. 2 (spring 1991): 177–82.
In the following essay, Harris discusses the stories in which Cather featured images of the Greek goddess Athene in an attempt to create female characters who embodied the ideals of her own masculine aesthetic.
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