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Dean of Faculty and Professor of English Joseph Urgo published Violence, the Arts, and Willia Cather (Associated University Presses) in October. Co-edited with Merrill Skaggs of Drew University, the book gathers 23 critics to explore Cather's "cyclical encounters with death and disaster" and her commitment "to making art in the face of violence." In his introduction to the volume, "Existential Terror in Cather," Urgo examines the recurrence in Cather's fiction of "a sensibility reflective of living in a world that may be destroyed, or may destroy us, in a moment."

Vige, I am testing this interface. Sorry for the trouble! -Joe