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My Ántonia (/ ˈ æ n t ə n i ə / AN-tə-nee-ə) is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather.. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century.
Willa Sibert Cather (/ ˈ k æ ð ər /; [1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [2] December 7, 1873 [A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]
My Antonia is a 1995 American drama television film directed by Joseph Sargent and written and produced by Victoria Riskin, based on the 1918 novel of the same name by Willa Cather. It stars Jason Robards , Eva Marie Saint , and Neil Patrick Harris .
When Annie was a young woman, she - like Antonia in the novel - returned to Webster County, pregnant, after being left by a railroad employee, James William Murphy. Back in her hometown, she gave birth to her daughter in 1892. In 1896, she married John Pavelka (Cuzak in the novel), with whom she had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood.
Nanette: An Aside was later rewritten as A Singer's Romance, [2] though with a different stance.. It was the first instance of the opera singer in her fiction. [3] It was also partly based on Cather's life, as she had just written a letter to a friend about how marriage would force her to relinquish her art.
I took my time with each photo, silently reminisced (we were in a library, after all), and pointed at his (admittedly sparse) spelling mistakes. After 20 pages of memories, I reached the final page.
Rosowski received multiple teaching awards, as well as the Mildred Bennett Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book (1994); [4] Honorary Nebraska Author by the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association (1995–96); the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award for Outstanding Book in American Literary Criticism (2000); and the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award by the University of Nebraska ...