ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Willa Cather, Jazz Age, Fine Art

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ENG3378- Lecture 9 – May 30th, 2018

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)

• Modernism seems to be absent of idealism not one

• Not under 40 age range- ayoe o afte 16 ot hae iteest i the essays she’s itig

• Wites futhe ito odeis tha Stei ad so o aout a deade’s diffeee

• Book has a different feel from anything we have looked at currently

• Only just finding the jazz age- ut do’t get that i the ook- wants to comment on jazz age but

does this by lack of, silence is hat’s used

• Antidote to the jazz age is to ignore that you are living in the jazz age

• We know the end of the book before we have really started

• Truth truer than truth- Hemm. - skip emotion focus on motion

• Cather is the opp. Emotion is everything

• Did’t at to all oel- more of a narrative

• Things related enough together but not a novel

• Similar to Anderson- do’t eliee i plot seuees

• Thus lousy novel- no plot sequence- bounced all around the timeline

• She cared about feeling not fact

• Reflect on the jazz age but not the feel of the jazz age

• Rather something different

• Bustling business of the world- the jazz age

• Need o atidote hih Cathe eliees is’t possile

• Not a novel- an unfurnished novel or narrative

• Believed in using word novel resulted in others bringing baggage with

Cather-

• Amateur art critic

• Fine art lover

• Not like Stein/Anderson

• Art inspired her book- wanted a rejection of the plot

• Mood is most important

• Mood, feeling etc.

• Painting none of the worlds more important than another

• Colours used gives no focal point

• Romantics- emotion

• But she does’t ite oati

• Modernist because of how she confronts emotion- strips it down

• Language is a mode of emotion- needs to be up to the task

• Pg.3 she gets distracted by talking about the skyline

• Paitig does’t talk aout olou as olou! Disusses it as a ode of feelig

• Overcome if possible the outcome of a broken world

• Title is a red heron- not about the bishop but rather his presence upon others- or his effect

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