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1 online resource (vi, 312 pages). |
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| Series |
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in Memory of Merrill M. Skaggs
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series on Willa Cather in memory of Merrill M. Skaggs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents -- Introduction. Catherâ#x80;#x99;s Sod House of Fiction: Introduction to the Centennial Study of My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Part I. TRANSLATION -- Chapter One. What Willa Catherâ#x80;#x99;s Letters Tell Us about the Reception of My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Two. â#x80;#x9C;People in countries who read it in the strangest languagesâ#x80;#x9D;: The International Reception of My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Three. Ã#x81;ntoniaâ#x80;#x99;s Mother Tongue: Reading and Translating (in) My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Part II. TRADITION |
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Chapter Four. â#x80;#x9C;Live Propertyâ#x80;#x9D;: Catherâ#x80;#x99;s 1926 Revisions to the Introduction of My Ã#x81;ntonia and the Specter of Nineteenth-Century Womenâ#x80;#x99;s RegionalismChapter Five. Violence in the Pastoral: Darkness in the Narrative Structure of My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Part III. TRANSGENDER -- Chapter Six. Boyhood and the Frontier: Nostalgia and Play in My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Seven. The Nebraskan Neverland: The Archeology of Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Fantasy Fiction in My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Eight. â#x80;#x9C;Obliterating Strangenessâ#x80;#x9D;: Willa Cather, Truman Capote, and the Influence of My Ã#x81;ntonia |
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Part IV. TRANSHUMANChapter Nine. Hysterical Resistance: Desire and Narrative in My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Ten. The Image of Nature in the Past in My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Eleven. My Ã#x81;ntonia: Keatsian Negative Capability and the Dissolution of Boundaries -- Part V. TRANSITION -- Chapter Twelve. A Portrait of a Self-Made Woman: Lena Lingard in My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Chapter Thirteen. The Gift Economies of My Ã#x81;ntonia -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its reception and legacy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Ántonia.
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My Ántonia (Cather, Willa) |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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Blackford, Holly, editor, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Something complete and great. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2017 9781683931256 (DLC) 2017038054 |
| ISBN |
9781683931263 (electronic book) |
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1683931262 (electronic book) |
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9781683931256 (hardcover) |
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