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Author: Guy Reynolds Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312160715 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 198
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Using the interdisciplinary methods of American studies, Willa Cather in Context presents surprising correspondences between Cather and other intellectuals of her time, including the social scientist Thorstein Velben and the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks.
Author: Guy Reynolds Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312160715 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 198
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Using the interdisciplinary methods of American studies, Willa Cather in Context presents surprising correspondences between Cather and other intellectuals of her time, including the social scientist Thorstein Velben and the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks.
Author: G. Reynolds Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023037624X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 198
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Drawing on a range of material from archives in the USA and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. Reynolds explores 'progressivism', 'primitivism' and 'Americanization' in such novels as My Antonia and O Pioneers! Willa Cather in Context develops interdisciplinary readings of this important Nebraskan novelist, placing her as a writer actively engaged with many of the key debates of early twentieth-century America, from immigration to evolutionary theory.
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.
Author: Guy Reynolds Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312160708 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 198
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A revisioning of Cather's position as a writer in retreat from her age and society, offering new contexts for novels such as My Antonia and O Pioneers!. Reynolds (English and American literature, U. of Kent) draws on archival and primary sources to find Cather in lively correspondence with social scientist Thorstein Veblen and literary critic Van Wyck Brooks and links Cather's work to many salient 20th century issues such as immigration, evolutionary theory, and theories of progress. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Union Square & Co. ISBN: 1454954582 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 127
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When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722225834 Category : Languages : en Pages : 260
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Willa Cather My Antonia 100th Anniversary Edition: Complete and Unabridged 1918 version with introduction, context, biography and analysis My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This special 100th Anniversary edition includes the full 1918 original version of the Willa Cather's book and provides other valuable features including a commented introduction, helpful bibliography, author's biography, notes, references, context and analysis.
Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1649741847 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 275
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Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Author: Guy Reynolds
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Author: Willa Cather
Author: Guy Reynolds
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Author: Willa Cather
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Author: Willa Cather
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