Date of Award
6-1-1969
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Bruce Baker
Abstract
Willa Cather’s reputation as a coherent symbolist needs no real amplification. Starting with O Pioneers!, her novels are emphatic manifestations of her artistic use of symbolism. Cather's poems and short stories are in some cases earlier evidence of her skill in this area. Moreover, a clearly observable pattern of symbolism, motif-like in its coherency and regularity, manifests itself throughout her works. Cather, and her poetry, short fiction, and novels, exhibits a sensitivity to the seasonal cycle, an attention which exerts a strong influence upon the total meaning of her art.
Recommended Citation
Daly, Daniel J., "The cycle of the seasons in selected works of Willa Cather" (1969). Student Work. 3249.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/3249
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Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha. Copyright 1969 Daniel J. Daly.