Sacred Fire: Willa Cather's Novel Cycle

by Evelyn Helmick Hively

This book examines Willa Cather's conceptions through her numerous works. Hively's study combines Cather's interest in the historians, the philosophers, and the mythographers, to examine nine of her novels on three levels. First, it postulates a cyclical design, beginning with O Pioneers and ending with Shadows on the Rock, which traces a rise, maturity, and fall of the civilization of the American West, and presents a new beginning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819194816
• ISBN13: 9780819194817
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.7"