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      "From an old country to a new " : opposing worlds and narrative traditions in Willa Cather's : My Ántonia

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Storey, Amanda Irene
      Type
      Project
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      My project is a discussion of the differing styles of narrative found in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. My paper is founded on the premise that these differing styles of narrative are emblematic of larger, more fundamental cultural differences in the novel. Using George Dekker’s The American Historical Romance as my framework, I identify two prevailing cultures in Cather’s novel—progressive culture and traditional culture—and suggest that the narrative and the narrator wavers between them. As traditional culture is linked by Dekker with both the rural and the oral, and progressive culture is linked with the urban and the literate, I examine how the narrator’s movement between the two locations creates a shift in narrative style. The differing narratives styles and the cultures of which they are representative have an uneasy relationship in My Ántonia, and this paper examines their presence and the possibility of their continued co-existence.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Bartley, William
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03202008-111637
      Subject
      Willa Cather
      Narrative
      Literacy
      Orality
      American literature
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