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Something Complete and Great - The Centennial Study of My Antonia (Hardcover)
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Something Complete and Great - The Centennial Study of My Antonia (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather
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This volume situates My Antonia 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. The essays as a whole situate the novel at
the cusp of the modern period, marking in myriad ways the novel's
transitional role between nineteenth and twentieth-century
literature and culture. The first section "Translation" features
writers that reflect on Cather's curious devaluation of My
Antonia's reception over time; translation issues in Germany,
Italty, France, and Russia; and linguistic issues in the novel's
vision of Antonia's acculturation. The second section "Tradition"
defines Cather's relationship to modernism and regionalism through
her career shifts and changes to the Introduction as well as her
narrative technique in marginalizing violence and darkness to the
edges of Jim's consicousness. The third section "Transgender"
analyzes Cather's relationship to Hamlin Garland's Life on the
Prairie, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and the Neverland, and the work
of Truman Capote, especially his gay protagoanist Joel Knox in
Other Voices, Other Rooms. The fourth section "Transhuman" deploys
work on hysteria to situate Cather's vision of genderless desire
and ecocritical lenses to understand Jim and nature. Finally the
last section "Transition" discusses Lena Lingard's presence as a
New Woman and gift economies in the novel that underscore the
community's uneasy transition to twentieth-century capitalism.
Gathered in the volume are an international group of scholars who
demonstrate the novel's centrality to women's studies, American
studies, queer studies, childhood studies, psychoanalysis, ecology,
translation and reception, Marxism, narratology, and
intertextuality.
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