Neighbor Rosicky | The Agrarian Mode in Cather’s ‘Neighbour Rosicky
In the following excerpt, Piacentino offers an
interpretation of Cather’s ‘‘Neighbour Rosicky,’’
particularly with regard to the themes of Agrarianism.
Piacentino also examines Cather’s use of imagistic
descriptions.
‘‘Neighbour Rosicky,’’ a story claimed to be ‘‘among the finest of Willa Cather’s works,’’ ‘‘a kind of pendant, or coda, to her classical pastoral My Antonia,’’ was written in 1928, shortly after Cather’s father’s death, and became the first of three stories collected in Obscure Destinies (1932). This endearing story has been somewhat generally and briefly analyzed by several of Cather’s critics, but no one has thoroughly examined its rich agrarian texture, even though a few commentators have hinted at its presence. David Daiches has properly...
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