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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

… Cite as: [item #], Betty Kort Collection. Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   …   Miscellaneous papers  Documents   Pat Phillips Materials Board minutes, conference notes   WCPM Ashtray     Playing …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… after book after book,” Harris said. Harris, now 80 years old, is a Professor and Director of Humanities at the Webb … presentation ceremony honoring them with a Congressional Gold Medal in the Emancipation Room of the Capitol building.  …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Willa Cather, an author who explored both the meaning and place of gender roles, now represents Nebraska at our … Rights, speaks to the diversity of Nebraska and our state’s place in the nation’s history.” University of … I aim to capture her standing, as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie.” Cather’s likeness …
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Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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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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