My project is a discussion of the differing styles of narrative found in Willa Cathers <i>My Ántonia</i>. My paper is founded on the premise that these differing styles of narrative are emblematic of larger, more fundamental cultural differences in the novel. Using George Dekkers The American Historical Romance as my framework, I identify two prevailing cultures in Cathers novelprogressive culture and traditional cultureand suggest that the narrative and the narrator wavers between them. As traditional culture is linked by Dekker with both the rural and the oral, and progressive culture is linked with the urban and the literate, I examine how the narrators movement between the two locations creates a shift in narrative style. The differing narratives styles and the cultures of which they are representative have an uneasy relationship in <i>My Ántonia</i>, and this paper examines their presence and the possibility of their continued co-existence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:SSU.etd-03202008-111637 |
| Date | 04 April 2008 |
| Creators | Storey, Amanda Irene |
| Contributors | Bartley, William |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-03202008-111637/ |
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