Spiritual “Garden” to Material “Garden”—A Thematic Study on Willa Cather’s Frontier Novels O Pioneers! And My ántonia  

作　　者：邓以南 

机构地区：[1]黄冈师范学院

出　　处：《校园英语》2016年第36期253-254,共2页English On Campus

摘　　要：Willa Cather is an eminent writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Most of her famous long novels are songs of pioneers. Her early frontier novels O Pioneers! and My ántonia are her masterpieces. The two novels are chosen to be discussed for them sharing some similarities in theme. The two are about the European immigrants’ self-construction in the American unreclaimed mid-west land. The protagonists of the two novels are female characters shared the same tough traits. This essay is to talk about the “garden” building of the two protagonists from the spiritual side to the material one. “Garden,” in Emerson’s The Young American, has been given an allegorical meaning that no matter where people live, as long as they devote themselves into their small land, the piece of ground would be a “garden” for them. Thus this essay focuses on the new perspective of “garden” building of the two female protagonists.Willa Cather is an eminent writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Most of her famous long novels are songs of pioneers. Her early frontier novels O Pioneers! and My ántonia are her masterpieces. The two novels are chosen to be discussed for them sharing some similarities in theme. The two are about the European immigrants’ self-construction in the American unreclaimed mid-west land. The protagonists of the two novels are female characters shared the same tough traits. This essay is to talk about the "garden" building of the two protagonists from the spiritual side to the material one. "Garden," in Emerson’s The Young American, has been given an allegorical meaning that no matter where people live, as long as they devote themselves into their small land, the piece of ground would be a "garden" for them. Thus this essay focuses on the new perspective of "garden" building of the two female protagonists.

关 键 词：“garden” building SELF-CONSTRUCTION FRONTIER O Pioneers! MY ántonia 

分 类 号：G633.41[文化科学—教育学]