Understanding O Pioneers! and My Cntonia: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

by Sheryl L. Meyering

Willa Cather's novels Oh Pioneers and My ntonia 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 celebrated nature and pondered humanity's place within it. Both novels are given full literary treatment here with close examination of the timeless themes of love, loss,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313313903
• ISBN13: 9780313313905
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12