THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MAGIC BETWEEN ETERNAL ART AND THE DELIVERY OF IRL
When Willa Cather was writing The Professor's House (1925) she was constructing together a real history (breaking open the former stories and the way they are delivered), and sewing it together with the role of the seamstress and the construction of the dresses on forms with the conceivability of a different role and a different embodiment of the feminine, the professor's and the seamstress's papers layered and interwoven together, as scholar Marc Chénetier pointed out, in the very act of her own writing--she the professor and seamstress, creating a completely different structure of the whole right from her own existence in the brilliant act of heroic creation. Eudora Welty, a master at it too, looked into what Willa was doing...