5/29/2023 0 Comments The Bohemian Girl by Willa CatherMany of Cather’s novels and short stories feature immigrants and their struggle for self-actualization in a foreign climate, and Bohemian immigrants are not excluded from these literary portraits. Willa Cather has been hailed, for decades, as an advocate for Bohemian culture. I’ll admit that I found K.E.’s hypothesis absurd when they first proposed it, but I think they have marshalled some very compelling evidence for their ground-breaking thesis. tackles one of the most accepted pillars of Cather criticism: that Cather was a great champion of Czech culture in her work. situates themself clearly within existing discourse and reveals surprising gaps in previous readings of Cather. Daft '19Įach year I teach the senior seminar, I challenge students to make an original contribution to Cather criticism, not merely parroting what other scholars have said, but staking out their own territory: remedying inaccurate or partial representations of Cather’s fiction in earlier scholarship and offering a substantially new reading of one or two of her novels or stories. The Bohemian Problem: A Sociological and Literary Examination of Willa Cather’s Fraught Relationship with Czech Culture By K.E.
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