The explicable presence of "the thing not named"
Alexander's bridge : Cather's bridge to the soul
A pioneer in art : staking out the claim to consciousness in O pioneers!
Thea Kronborg's "Song of myself" : the artist's imaginative inheritance in The song of the lark
My Àntonia : the imaginative possession of childhood
"Strong in attack but weak in defence" : defending the usurped territory in A lost lady
"Letting something go" : the costs of self-possession in The professor's house
"How to recover a bishopric" : Cather's recovery of the imaginative territory in Death comes for the archbishop
"The ownership that was right" : imaginative bonds of slavery in Sapphira and the slave girl
"Making it over until it becomes a personal possession" : Willa Cather and the reader.
