New Essays on My Ántonia
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1998
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-45905-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-45905-1 (ISBN)
My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. The essays in this volume place the novel in the context of American literary history, African-American music, and Southern writing, and offer illuminating ways of reading Cather's best-known work.
My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. It is also her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can be enjoyed both for its simple, pure prose and for its literary depth. The essays in this volume place the novel in the context of American literary history, African-American music, and Southern writing, and offer illuminating ways of reading Cather's best-known work.
My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. It is also her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can be enjoyed both for its simple, pure prose and for its literary depth. The essays in this volume place the novel in the context of American literary history, African-American music, and Southern writing, and offer illuminating ways of reading Cather's best-known work.
1. Introduction Sharon O'Brien; 2. My Antonia and African American art Elizabeth Ammons; 3. 'It ain't my prairie': gender, power, and narrative in My Antonia Marilee Lindemann; 4. Time, change, and the burden of revision in My Ántonia Miles Orvell; 5. Displacing Dixie: the Southern subtext in My Antonia Anne Goodwyn Jones.
| Reihe/Serie | The American Novel |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 185 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-45905-2 / 0521459052 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-45905-1 / 9780521459051 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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