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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… a paradigmatic American narrative and continues to invite new and varied interpretations.  This program, to be held at … is scheduled for April 7, 2018, at 2 p.m.  “ My Ántonia : New Readings for a Centennial Celebration” opens new opportunities for understanding  My Ántonia  as a …
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Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … OBJ-50-1000-016 Willa Cather     Document Tx-50-1000-017 Articles of Indenture     Document TX-50-1000-018 Jeremiah …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy … Harris’s first choice for a 20th-century American novel seminar paper in 1971, but he’s been choosing her ever … 1987, and he’s traveled across the country and abroad for International Willa Cather Seminars. “The Cather group was …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing … Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 7, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Cather is the first Pulitzer Prize winner and … of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, …
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Willa Cather Biography

… periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places … listed 1876 as her birth year—is this quotation from My Antonia: "that is happiness, to be dissolved into something …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by … Letters at Smith College Libraries  AUTHOR: Melissa J. Homestead, University of Oklahoma and Anne L. Kaufman. …
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Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … production: agriculture and the Great Plains ( O Pioneers , My Antonia, One of Ours , etc.) as well as agriculture in … their papers for possible publication in a special expanded edition of The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Please …
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