TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marianne Davidson
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631744659
TI  - Willa Cather's «Lucy Gayheart» and Franz Schubert's «Winterreise»
T2  - A Study in Intertextualtity
DO  - 10.3726/b13219
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056180
N2  - 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.
KW  - American literature, Romantic literature, Art songs, Comparative literature, Cultural transfer, Interdisciplinary study, German literature
LA  - English
ER  -