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Understanding O pioneers! and My Antonia a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents /

Publisher's description: Willa Cather's novels Oh Pioneers! and My Antonia are at once accurate representations of life on the midwestern prairies in the era of their first settlement and continuations of a literary tradition that stretches back to Virgil and other classical writers who ce...

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Main Author: Meyering, Sheryl L., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Series:Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Physical Description:
xv, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
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505 0 0 |t Fleeting moments of beauty: a literary analysis of O Pioneers! and My Antonia --  |t Everyday life on the plains --  |t Coming of the railroad --  |t Another country, another language: foreign-born pioneers --  |t Women on the frontier --  |t Disappearance of the family farm. 
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