Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War

Authors

Mary R. Ryder, South Dakota State University

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Steven Trout offers a fresh approach to the study of Cather as a writer of war fiction and situates her squarely among the principally male writers of World War I. In lucid prose, Trout presents a convincing argument that Cather's prize-winning but much maligned novel One of Ours is "far more modernist than most critics have assumed" and merits a place alongside works by Hemingway and Remarque as a realistic account of the American experience in the "War to End All Wars."