Burying below sea level: the erotics of sex and death in The Optimist's Daughter.
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2003-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | n/a | Willa Cather |
| Author | n/a | Dawn Trouard |
| Person | n/a | Eudora Welty |
EUDORA WELTY MENTIONS WILLA CATHER ONLY ONCE, incidentally, in the two wonderful volumes collecting more than fifty interviews from 1942 to 1994. (1) Given Welty's extensive tribute to the author in "The House of Willa Cather" (1974), the omission is remarkable. It is even more so in light of the canny connections between the two women as artists. In this detailed essay, Welty marks Cather's terrains and techniques and, in each instance, explicitly articulates what makes her art great. As Welty makes her way through the Cather canon marveling at landscapes, character, panoramic...
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