Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

Expanding on her absorbing and controversial 1995 New Yorker article, Joan Acocella examines the politics of Willa Cather criticism: how Cather's work has been seized upon and often distorted by critics on both the left and the right. Acocella argues that the central element of Cather's works was not a political agenda but rather a tragic vision of life. This beautifully written book makes a significant contribution to Cather studies and, at the same time, points out the follies of political criticism in the study of all literature.

Author: Joan Acocella
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 02/01/2000
Pages: 127
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.80w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780803210462

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2000 pg. 95
New York Times 04/02/2000 pg. 23
New Yorker (The) 12/18/2000 pg. 107

About the Author

A staff writer for the New Yorker, Joan Acocella is the author of Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder and Mark Morris, and the editor of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

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