Études Anglaises, vol. LII, no. 3, 1999, p. 275--285

Anne Foata

Artistic Rebirth and the images of androgyny in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark

Abstract. In the tablelands and gorges of ``Panther Canyon" in Arizona where Thea Kronborg achieves her (re)birth as an artist, the American critic Ellen Moers has seen the ``most thoroughly elaborated feminine landscape in literature," a statement much rehashed by all later feminist critics.

This article proposes a rereading of the geography of Panther Canyon which includes its many obvious male elements and concludes on the images of androgyny that characterize Thea.

anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr

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