Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart and Franz Schubert's Winterreise - neues Buch

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ISBN/EAN: 9783631744666

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978-3-631-74466-6
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Titel des Buches: winterreise, franz schubert

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Autor/in: Marianne Davidson
Titel: Willa Cather's «Lucy Gayheart» and Franz Schubert's «Winterreise» - A Study in Intertextualtity
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
200 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018-06-08
Frankfurt a.M. DE
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Deutschland.
Sprache: Englisch
55,95 € (DE)
56,00 € (AT)
61,00 CHF (CH)
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studied English, American and German literature at the University of Mannheim, Germany, where she also obtained a Ph.D. in these subjects. She taught English and German at High School in Germany and published on Willa Cather and F.J. Turner.

This monograph restores Willa Cather’s «Lucy Gayheart» 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 «Winterreise» (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.

As a study in intertextuality this book reads Willa Carthy’s novel «Lucy Gayheart» through the prism of Franz Schubert’s song cycle «Winterreise» (Winter Journey). With introspective sensibilities determining the central figures of both works, their tragic vision of life illuminates the transition from romanticism to modernism.

Essential definition of German romanticism – Parallels in mindsets and aesthetics between an American author shaped by European culture and a German composer – Close reading of «Winterreise» – Intertextual interpretation of «Lucy Gayheart» – Novel and song cycle are located between romanticism and modernism.