Hi All,

I've been working on project in blog form for now. It's an offshoot of my Cather dissertation. My objective is to create a concordance of sorts, accumulating and documenting every time Cather refers to or names a tree in her novels.  The blog currently has an Intro (the first post), a post for each tree named with mythological references and identifications of each tree, along with posts from each novel with a list of each tree named and page numbers from the paperback additions where the quotes can be found. I have finished with "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and "Shadows on the Rock, "Lucy Gayheart," Sapphira and the Slave Girl," and "O Pioneers." And am more than halfway through "The Song of the Lark."

I was wondering if any of you would be interested in providing feedback, suggestions, etc. Or maybe it would just jog your memory of other trees scenes in Cather that have mattered to you (in rereading "Old Mrs. Harris, for instance, I found it even more interesting now how much resting and contemplating under the cottonwoods is for Vickie). Please share if you feel compelled.

Happy New Year, Everyone.


--Jim

http://jcody6underwillacatherstrees.wordpress.com/


Jim Cody, D.Litt.
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