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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393924661
ISBN-139780393924664
eBay Product ID (ePID)46929918
Product Key Features
Book TitleO Pioneers! (1st Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorWilla Cather
Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2007-046864
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Table Of ContentList of IllustrationsIntroductionAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextThe Text of O Pioneers!Contexts and Backgrounds: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICALElizabeth Sergeant [From Willa Cather: A Memoir']1913 Interview1915 Interview1921 InterviewLatrobe Carroll - "Willa Sibert CatherDorothy Canfield Fischer - "Willa Cather, Daughter of the FrontierWilla Cather - "Preface" to Alexander's BridgeWilla Cather - "My First Novels: There Were TwoLITERARY CONTEXTSWilla Cather - "PeterWilla Cather - "A Wagner MatineeWilla Cather - [On Henry James]Henry James - From "The Lesson of the MasterEdith Wharton - From The House of MirthWilla Cather - "The Willing MuseSarah Orne Jewett - [Letters to Willa Cather]Willa Cather - "Miss JewettSarah Orne Jewett - "A White HeronWilla Cather - From Alexander's BridgeWilla Cather - "The Bohemian GirlWilla Cather - [On Whitman]Walt Whitman - "Pioneers! O Pionners!THE AMERICAN WESTThe Oblinger Letters - Library of Congress, "American Memory" siteEverett Dick - [From The Sod-House Frontier]Frederick Jackson Turner - [From "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"]Willa Cather - "Nebraska: The End of the First CycleJoseph Alexis - From "Swedes in Nebraksa" (paper read at the annual meeting of the Nebraska State Historical Society, January 22, 1914)Sarka B. Hrbkova - "Bohemians in Nebraska (Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 19)Rose Rosicky - From A History of the Czechs (Bohemians) in NebraskaMike Fischer - [From "Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism"]Criticism: CONTEMPORARY REVIEWSFrom Boston Evening TranscriptFrom Chicago Evening PostFrom McClure's MagazineFrom BookmanFrom Lincoln Sunday State JournalFrom NationFrom New York Times Book ReviewMODERN CRITICAL VIEWSDavid Stouck - [Willa Cather and the Epic]John J. Murphy - [Biblical and Literary Contexts in O Pioneers!]Sharon O'Brien - [Gender and Creativity in O Pioneers!]C. Susan Wiesenthal - 'Female Sexuality in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and the Era ofScientific Sociology: A Dialogue between FrontiersMarilee Lindemann - [From "Introduction" to O Pioneers!]Melissa Ryan - "The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in O Pioneers!Guy Reynolds - [Willa Cather and the Pioneer Myth]Willa Cather: A ChronologySelected Bibliography
Edition DescriptionCritical
SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition brings to life--through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others--the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, In this one I hit the home pasture... Contexts and Backgrounds includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture of one family's life on the Nebraska prairie). Criticism provides seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and Sharon O'Brien., This Norton Critical Edition brings to life--through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others--the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit the home pasture..." "Contexts and Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture of one family's life on the Nebraska prairie). "Criticism" provides seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and Sharon O'Brien., Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud., This Norton Critical Edition brings to life through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit the home pasture " "Contexts and Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of autobiographical and biographical remembrances (including three interviews with Cather), literary contexts (by Cather and her contemporaries, Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett), and writings on the American West (including selected letters that paint a picture of one family's life on the Nebraska prairie). "Criticism" provides seven contemporary reviews and eight modern critical interpretations by David Stouck, John J. Murphy, C. Susan Wiesenthal, Marilee Lindemann, Melissa Ryan, Guy Reynolds, and Sharon O'Brien."
LC Classification NumberPS3505
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