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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"My Ántonia"”.
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"From an old country to a new " : opposing worlds and narrative traditions in Willa Cather's : My Ántonia
My project is a discussion of the differing styles of narrative found in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. My paper is founded on the premise that these differing styles of narrative are emblematic of larger, more fundamental cultural differences in the novel. Using George Dekker’s The American Historical …
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Disturbing the Ecological Pastoral: An Examination of Willa Cather's Fictional Spaces in <em>My Ántonia</em> and <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em>
… “Western” landscapes, I will focus first on <em>My Ántonia</em>, one of her most famous Nebraska novels, and second on <em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em>, whose narrative unravels on the New Mexican landscape. I argue that Cather treats these spaces differently. In <em>My Ántonia</em>, she …
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… label her a lesbian. Cather, however, left us a mystery surrounding her gender preference because she never openly called herself a lesbian. Cather's supposed lesbianism is useful because it reveals the ambiguity of her personality. Cather is paradox because she sought for self-definition, but …