Willa cather pioneers7/7/2023 The West she then saw as particularly destructive of the artist. For example, “A Wagner Matinee” (Everybody’s Magazine, March, 1904) and “The Sculptor’s Funeral” (McClures, January, 1905) are more hardhoiled than her later fiction of acceptance because in them she rejected her West for its sordidness and hostility to the aesthetic capacity of the human being. First, she had to determine who she was, what the Nebraska of her childhood and youth meant to her, and what forms best suited her genius. She had published a number of stories of considerable maturity, a volume of poems (April Twilights, 1903), any number of critical articles and other journalistic essays and had done extensive editorial work for McClures. M A Y N A R D F O X Fort Lewis College Symbolic Representation in Willa Cather’s 0 Pioneers! Willa Cather by 1910 had determined to become a writer, as is evidenced by her work during the decade then just finished but whether she was to be a poet, a journalist, a writer of short stories, or a novelist was not yet clear. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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