A Comparative Study Of Willa Cather's Literary Technique
...the inspiration to describe the American West of that time, and she succeeded thanks to her talent and a strong sense of the place. Her unique ability of presenting people's relationships, their fates, and the beauty of the nature harmonically, made her name famous and her novels captivating. More than that Willa Cather's works express the penetrating global idea of intercultural dependency intertwined with the universal story of the rise of civilizations in history. This particular literary technique became a matter for many discussions by many critics and the topic for many research works.
Having read several novels by Willa Cather we also realized this distinctive feature her peculiar way in depicturing history being very clear, simple, and accurate. This pushed us to identify and later compare it with other academic works and improve it with further research. We decided to make a parallel between her two very famous novels O'Pioneers and Death Comes for the Archbishop, the histories of the American frontier and the American West, and emphasize the peculiarity of author's technique.
Awards came to Cather during her life time -- honorary degrees from numerous universities, the Pulitzer Prize for "One of Ours," a medal by the American Academy for "Death Comes for the Archbishop," and the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for a writer's lifetime achievement. Following her death, her reputation has grown steadily and, in the last fifteen years, exploded with activity, with over a hundred articles and several books appearing each year on her. In 1990 "A Lost Lady" was included among the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World," and Cather is now widely recognized as a major American writer, and the US foremost woman writer. And the explosion of critical recognition means only that the experts have realized what her...
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