TY  - BOOK
AU  - Humes,Holly Blackford
AU  - Stout,Janis P.
AU  - Bernardini,Caterina
AU  - Homestead,Melissa J.
AU  - Prenatt,Diane
AU  - Young,Sarah L.
AU  - Woodside,Martin
AU  - Fahy,Thomas
AU  - Street,Monroe
AU  - Xi,Fangyuan
TI  - Something Complete and Great: The Centennial Study of My Ántonia
SN  - 9781683931263
AV  - PS3505.A87 .S664 2018 
U1  - 813.52 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
KW  - Cather, Willa,-1873-1947.-My Ántonia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Cather's Sod House of Fiction: Introduction to the Centennial Study of My Ántonia -- Part I. TRANSLATION -- Chapter One. What Willa Cather's Letters Tell Us about the Reception of My Ántonia -- Chapter Two. "People in countries who read it in the strangest languages": The International Reception of My Ántonia -- Chapter Three. Ántonia's Mother Tongue: Reading and Translating (in) My Ántonia -- Part II. TRADITION -- Chapter Four. "Live Property": Cather's 1926 Revisions to the Introduction of My Ántonia and the Specter of Nineteenth-Century Women's Regionalism -- Chapter Five. Violence in the Pastoral: Darkness in the Narrative Structure of My Ántonia -- Part III. TRANSGENDER -- Chapter Six. Boyhood and the Frontier: Nostalgia and Play in My Ántonia -- Chapter Seven. The Nebraskan Neverland: The Archeology of Children's Fantasy Fiction in My Ántonia -- Chapter Eight. "Obliterating Strangeness": Willa Cather, Truman Capote, and the Influence of My Ántonia -- Part IV. TRANSHUMAN -- Chapter Nine. Hysterical Resistance: Desire and Narrative in My Ántonia -- Chapter Ten. The Image of Nature in the Past in My Ántonia -- Chapter Eleven. My Ántonia: Keatsian Negative Capability and the Dissolution of Boundaries -- Part V. TRANSITION -- Chapter Twelve. A Portrait of a Self-Made Woman: Lena Lingard in My Ántonia -- Chapter Thirteen. The Gift Economies of My Ántonia -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors
N2  - 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
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