Norton Critical Editions My Antonia

基本信息

Author: Willa Cather

Format: Paperback | 544 pages

Publisher WW Norton & Co

ISBN10 0393967905

ISBN13 9780393967906

Publication 26 Aug 2015

Dimensions: 132 x 213 x 28mm | 532g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

《我的安东尼亚》的背景设在内布拉斯加州的一个社区，这个社区让人想起凯瑟(《红云》)，它讲述了安东尼亚·希梅尔达和吉姆·伯登的故事，后者和凯瑟一样，从弗吉尼亚搬到了内布拉斯加州的大草原。安东尼娅和吉姆，就像这本1918年出版的小说中的其他人物一样，是以凯瑟儿时的朋友为原型的。诺顿评论版是根据小说的第一版改编的。它伴随着解释性的脚注，关键插图，一个介绍，给读者一个历史概述的作者和小说，并对文本的注释。

Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Antonia tells the story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. Antonia and Jim, like many of the other characters in this 1918 novel, are based on Cather's childhood friends. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first published edition of the novel. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, key illustrations, an introduction that gives readers a historical overview of both author and novel, and a note on the text.

"Contexts and Backgrounds" is a rich collection of materials organized around the novel's central themes: "Autobiographical and Biographical Writings," "Letters," and "Americanization and Immigration." Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Latrobe Carroll, Rose C. Feld, Guy Reynolds, Woodrow Wilson, Peter Roberts, Horace M. Kallen, Sarka B. Hrbkova, and Rose Rosicky, among others, are included.

"Criticism" spans a century of scholarship on Willa Cather and My Antonia, from contemporary reviews by Henry Walcott Boynton, H. L. Mencken, and Elia W. Peattie, among others, to recent critical assessments by Terence Martin, Blanche Gelfant, Jean Schwind, Richard H. Millington, Susan Rosowski, Mike Fischer, Janis Stout, Marilee Lindemann, and Linda Joyce Brown.

A Chronology of Cather's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

作者简介

Sharon O'Brien is an acclaimed author of both trade and scholarly books and a well-known Cather scholar. She is James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures at Dickinson College. She is the author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice; Willa Cather; and The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance. She is the editor of The Library of America Willa Cather (Volumes I-III) and New Essays on My Antonia.