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Willa Cather and Her Novels
The state of Nebraska is part of the great plain which stretches west of the Missouri River, gradually rising until it reaches the Rocky mountains. The character of all this country between the river and the mountains is essentially the same throughout its extent: a rolling, alluvial plain, growing …
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Willa Cather and the Humanities
… of the two gracious old ladies who had been Willa Gather's lifelong friends. The last words of the older sister, the Carrie, to whom Willa Cather had dedicated her My Antonia, still sounded in my ears and rather dimmed the amenities—the "thank-yous,” the "good-byes," the "come-agains."
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Willa Cather and the Classics
Throughout her works Willa Cather incorporated references to classical literature, history, and especially myth as a means of confronting personal and societal crises and of expressing the universality of human experience. In turning to the Classics, Cather reinforced her belief that only two or …
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The French Influence on Willa Cather
… or of even another culture. | So it is with Willa Cather. I propose to examine her published work in order to ascertain to what extent, if any, French cultural influences, in their various forms, entered into the spirit and the letter of her work. I propose to investigate the possibility of …
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Willa Cather: A Study in Primitivism
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Money in the Fiction of Willa Cather
… subject of money is important in the fiction of Willa Cather. She discusses it frequently and often at great length. In some works it is a major theme.</p> <p>Despite its importance, a number of Willa Cather's critics have ignored the subject or have given it only cursory mention. Several …
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Willa Cather as seen by the critics since 1920.
… a research for all the possible criticisms of Willa Cather since 1920. It has been written to record how Willa Cather has been seen by critics throughout the four decades: 1920-1930, 1931-1940, and 1951-1960, each decade forming a chapter. The criticisms are introduced in chronological order …
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… that often left them confused and frustrated. Willa Sibert Cather's life reflects the fluctuating gender conventions of early twentieth century America as she struggled to define her gender identity. In her youth, Cather chopped her hair and dressed like a boy. She also spent time dissecting …
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AMERICAN MADNESS: THE FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLA CATHER, AND O.E. RØLVAAG
… Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag rely on the frontier and the theme of madness to depict characters’ aberrant behaviors. Using these depictions of madness, I explore questions of religion, violence, gender, and ethnic identity to analyze the …
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"From an old country to a new " : opposing worlds and narrative traditions in Willa Cather's : My Ántonia
… 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 Romance as my …
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Evolution Of Prairie Myths And Metaphors: An Ecocritical Approach To Americans' Relationship With The Prairie
… study explores the fiction of O.E. Rölvaag and Willa Cather, using an ecocritical examination to show the relationship between humankind and the prairie environment in which they live. By analyzing a combination of literature and environmental case studies, this thesis presents a picture of the …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
… Progressive-era realists such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather, Afro-Modernist bohemians like Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent, and transatlantic Anglo-American Modernists such as Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes renovate a genre traditionally dedicated to sexual surveillance and …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… notions supporting those undertakings. For Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston, the Bible is a source of moral authority they use to challenge the imperialist, colonialist, and nativist projects of the twentieth-century U.S. In rebranding the Bible as politically radical, …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… of their respective Anglo counterparts such as Willa Cather and other members of the Santa Fe and Taos writers colonies, Walter Noble Burns, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb. I take an interdisciplinary approach dialoging with Chicano/a, borderlands, and American literary studies within …
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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>
Willa Cather is universally lauded for her ability to render landscape into prose. Critics have observed for years that the landscape often functions as the main character in her fiction, or that her characters can easily be evaluated in terms of how deep and successful their relationships to the …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Willa Cather, non-fiction works by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, as well as a scientific treatise by Ellen H. Richards to argue that nationalism inflects the American environmental imagination with a twofold desire for racial …
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Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
<p>In <em>The Song of the Lark</em> (1915), Willa Cather does something extraordinary by presenting a well-rounded and likeable Mexican character. This is quite different from her contemporaries’ stereotypical depictions of minorities. To include immigrants in a modern novel was avant-garde and …
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A Web of Connections: How Early Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Photographers Situated a New Way of Seeing
… culture’s stereotypes of Native American women. Willa Cather and photographer Laura Gilpin were connected through a shared passion for the geography and the Native American cultures of the American Southwest and may have inspired each other with their depictions and descriptions of that region, …
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Multiple, misaligned subjectivities : how representative twentieth century authors resolve the tension between American individualism and femininity.
… authors whose works span the twentieth century: Willa Cather (Song of the Lark and My Antonia), Zelda Fitzgerald (Save Me the Waltz), Shirley Jackson (The Sundial, Hill House, and We Always Lived in a Castle) and Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping and Lila). The analysis examines how the characters …
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