Outer Simplicity and Inner Sophistication: A Critical Historical Survey of Willa Cather’s My Antonia. | ||||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 06 February 2022 | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2022.118913.1447 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Salwa El-Shazli 
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| جامعة بدر في القاهرة | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Willa Cather’s works enjoy outer simplicity and inner sophistication, and My Antonia (1918) is no exception. The unique richness of this novel succeeds to attract the interest of researchers and critics over years, that is why, a huge number of books, articles, chapters in books, and memoirs were written analyzing, criticizing, and commenting on that work. This paper seeks to provide a kind of a critical historical survey of Willa Cather's My Antonia. The novel has variously been examined: sometimes as an ode to the Wester prairies, as an immigration document, as a mythical parable with a legendary heroine, as a feminist work, as a text with a unique style of narrativity, and as a protest assimilation policy to name some. The paper aims to select distinctive representative criticisms on My Antonia in almost each decade. The purpose here is double-folded: first to point out the inner sophistication of the text. Second to prove the diversity of approaches that change with ages. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Simplicity; sophistication; response; rich mine; critical survey | ||||
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