Willa Cather's 'Lucy Gayheart' and Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise' A Study in Intertextualtity

This monograph restores Willa Cather's (S0(BLucy Gayheart(S1(B from superficial attention and dismissive criticism. Departing from textual evidence, it reads the novel in the light of its own intertext: Wilhelm Müller's and Franz Schubert's (S0(BWinterreise(S1(B (Winter Journey). The identification of startling parallels between the eligist of the American pioneer period and representatives of literary and musical German romanticism elicits new subtexts and insights. Novel and song cycle share themes such as the blending of memory, desire and imagination or a tragic vision of life offset by the search for transcendental meaning. Conclusively, both works result in ambivalence by oscillating between romanticism and modernism.

ISBN:	9783631735947
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:	Peter Lang Edition
Published date:	30 Apr 2018
Language:	English
Number of pages:	200
Weight:	274g
Height:	150mm
Width:	210mm
Spine width:	13mm

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