Something Complete and Great : The Centennial Study of My 聲tonia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Cather's Sod House of Fiction: Introduction to the Centennial Study of My 聲tonia -- Part I. TRANSLATION -- Chapter One. What Willa Cather's Letters Tell Us about the Reception of My 聲tonia -- Chapter Two. "People in countries who read it in the strangest languages": The International Reception of My 聲tonia -- Chapter Three. 聲tonia's Mother Tongue: Reading and Translating (in) My 聲tonia -- Part II. TRADITION -- Chapter Four. "Live Property": Cather's 1926 Revisions to the Introduction of My 聲tonia and the Specter of Nineteenth-Century Women's Regionalism -- Chapter Five. Violence in the Pastoral: Darkness in the Narrative Structure of My 聲tonia -- Part III. TRANSGENDER -- Chapter Six. Boyhood and the Frontier: Nostalgia and Play in My 聲tonia -- Chapter Seven. The Nebraskan Neverland: The Archeology of Children's Fantasy Fiction in My 聲tonia -- Chapter Eight. "Obliterating Strangeness": Willa Cather, Truman Capote, and the Influence of My 聲tonia -- Part IV. TRANSHUMAN -- Chapter Nine. Hysterical Resistance: Desire and Narrative in My 聲tonia -- Chapter Ten. The Image of Nature in the Past in My 聲tonia -- Chapter Eleven. My 聲tonia: Keatsian Negative Capability and the Dissolution of Boundaries -- Part V. TRANSITION -- Chapter Twelve. A Portrait of a Self-Made Woman: Lena Lingard in My 聲tonia -- Chapter Thirteen. The Gift Economies of My 聲tonia -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This volume situates My 聲tonia 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.