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Something Complete and Great : The Centennial Study of My Ántonia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683931263
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Something Complete and GreatDDC classification:
  • 813.52
LOC classification:
  • PS3505.A87 .S664 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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