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Willa Cather

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Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark" is primarily the story of a young girl's coming of age and her development into a great artist. However, it also tells of her struggle against adverse circumstances to become successful. Thea Kronborg is raised in the suffocating and gossipy small town of Moonstone, Colorado. In order for her to reach her full potential Thea must leave her hometown, and sacrifice her family and...

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Willa Cather Biographies (7)

Willa Sibert Cather

647 words, approx. 3 pages

The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility wa... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

9,750 words, approx. 33 pages

Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is ... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

2,268 words, approx. 8 pages

"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize fo... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

4,008 words, approx. 14 pages

The literary reputation of Willa Cather has steadily risen since her first volume of short stories appeared in 1905, but her present stature as an important American writer rests largely on her twel... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

7,822 words, approx. 27 pages

During the 1973 Willa Cather centennial seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska, Leon Edel--the Henry James biographer who collaborated with E. K. Brown on the first important biographical study of Cather--put h... Read more

Willa Sibert Cather

10,480 words, approx. 35 pages

Biography EssayWilla Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of ... Read more

Willa Silbert Cather

4,804 words, approx. 17 pages

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," Willa Cather observed in her second novel, O Pioneers!, but the same theme resonates throughout all of her work. Passionately in... Read more

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Character Analysis of Thea in "The Song of the Lark"

926 words, approx. 4 pages

There are but a few basic formats that are most often used in the development of fictional literature. The most commonly used is that consisting of introduction, conflict, and then finally, the resol... Read more

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