Willa Cather

Cover : Willa Cather, Date of birth : She was born on 7 December, 1873. Date of death: She died on 24 April 1947. 1) Willa Sibert Cather was an American author and teacher. She’s one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Their family and she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska in 1884. It was a good experience for her because she she grew up among the immigrants from Scandinavian, Bohemian, German, and other immigrant peoples who settled that area. Cather entered the University

My Antonia *Book 1, chapter* 3 Willa Cather focuses on writing fiction novels and she became famous through the success of her novels. We can suppose that this novel is autobiographical because in 1883 the Cather family moved to join Willa’s grandparents William and Caroline in Webster County, Nebraska like the main protagonist. However, My Antonia presents a distinctly American vision of modernism. Often, modernist works evoke a sense of disillusionment with modern society, a feeling of fragmentation

My Antonia, Willa Cather : Text 10- BookIV Chapter IV First of all I’m going to introduce the life and work of the author of My Antonia, Willa Cather. She was born in 1873 in rural Virginia. She moved with her family from Virginia to Red Cloud, Nebraska at the age of 10. Red Cloud was at that time a small railroad down that had been founded 13 years before and which was populated by immigrants from all over Europe. Willa attended RC. High School and learned the classics. She began to forge friendship

| Mr. Shimerda's death is the first turning point in the novel. Importance of religion and Biblical references. Chapter XIV – page 82 Chapter XV – page 84 Willa Cather has chosen this particular section of the book to emphasize the importance of religion, and religious differences, among the immigrants. The flight of Mr. Shimerda's soul becomes a primary focus here. Unable to fetch a priest, the Shimerdas are

This text is the introduction to My Antonia which was written by Willa Cather and published in 1918. In this excerpt, an unnamed narrator travelling by train one summer across the American Midwest with an old childhood friend Jim Burden, the both had grown up in a Nebraska town. They reminisce (rɛmɪˈnɪs) about their childhood days and a mutual friend, a Bohemian girl named Antonia. Both of them decide to write what they remember about these girl but eventually only Jim manages to do so. And the

green liquid ooze from his crushed head” and in the middle of page 26 “he seemed like the ancient, eldest evil”. Cather appeals to the senses to describe the snake by sight: - “a thread of green liquid oozed from his crushed head”, hearing “the tail groping still making noises with the rattles”, smell “he faint, fetid smell that came from him”. The snake is personified because Cather refers to it as “him” -a man. Jim insists on measuring the snake and identify its age to impress Antonia and to

of the novel and the person we are supposed to admire as much as Jim does. What is crucial to remember is that Willa Cather, through her semi-autobiographical character Jim Burden, is writing in the voice of a man. Though Cather bases the character Ántonia on a real person that she knew during her Nebraska childhood, she chooses not to describe her from a female perspective. Cather is thus distancing herself from both Ántonia and the male narrator of the novel, and the framing device of the introduction

déterminée au niveau national. Liste des œuvres au programme pour les sessions 2009 et 2010 - William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Yann Martel : Life of Pi - Herman Melville : Billy Budd - John Keats : Selected Poems (édition Aubier) - Willa Cather : My Antonia - Harold Pinter : The Caretaker - Virginia Woolf : A Haunted House and Other Short Stories - Jennifer Johnston : How Many Miles to Babylon - Doris Lessing : The Fifth Child - Ernest J. Gaines : A Lesson Before Dying - Beverley Naidoo

par Eric P. Kelly 1930: Hitty, sa première Cent Ans par Rachel Field Les gagnants du prix Pulitzer pour les romans 1920 (No Award) 1921 The Age of Innocence par Edith Wharton 1922 Alice Adams par Booth Tarkington 1923 l'un des nôtres par Willa Cather 1924 McLaughlins Able par Margaret Wilson 1925 So Big Edna Ferber par 1926 Arrowsmith de Sinclair Lewis 1927 Début de l'automne par Louis Bromfield 1928 Pont de San Luis Rey par Thornton Wilder 1929 Scarlet Sœur Marie par Julia Peterkin

Désobéissance civile en 1894 grâce à un journal anglais et qui le traduisit en russe69. Thoreau a inspiré d'autres personnalités du monde des arts et des lettres comme Henry Miller133, Edward Abbey (Down the River with Henry Thoreau, 1984)134, Willa Cather (O Pioneers!, 1913)135, Marcel Proust136 mais aussi Sinclair Lewis (The American Adam, 1959)137, Ernest Hemingway138 ou encore Elwyn Brooks White139. L'architecte Frank Lloyd Wright explique que « l'architecture moderne américaine serait incomplète