{"id":115,"date":"2017-02-03T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=115"},"modified":"2017-02-03T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T19:10:21","slug":"a-novel-without-a-hero-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-essays\/a-novel-without-a-hero-response\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Novel Without a Hero&#8221; Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;A Novel without a Hero&#8221;, Cather&#8217;s strong female characters are recognized, but ultimately, the text states that the tale is not a feminine one, and that &#8220;Miss Cather had nothing so inartistic in mind.&#8221; Does the writer believe a feminist novel would be inartistic because it would lack nuance, and thus miss the breadth\u00a0of Cather&#8217;s arguments regarding the American dream? Is the term &#8220;inartistic&#8221; a function of the early 1900&#8217;s misogyny? Or, is it merely a reflection of Cather&#8217;s own pronouncement that the novel was not, in essence, feminist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;A Novel without a Hero&#8221;, Cather&#8217;s strong female characters are recognized, but ultimately, the text states that the tale is not a feminine one, and that &#8220;Miss Cather had nothing so inartistic in mind.&#8221; Does the writer believe a feminist novel would be inartistic because it would lack nuance, and thus miss the breadth\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}