This thesis aims at the elaboration of Willa Cather's pioneering themes based on her major works spanning over the prologue and epilogue of American pioneering age. Among which, O Pioneers! and My Antonia applause...This thesis aims at the elaboration of Willa Cather's pioneering themes based on her major works spanning over the prologue and epilogue of American pioneering age. Among which, O Pioneers! and My Antonia applause for the transcendent glory of innovative and enterprising pioneer ladies, declined in A Lost Lady and My Mortal Enemy and substituted with hedonism, affinity reliance and mammonism. In her late years, Cather resurrected her pioneering themes through the recollection of the best bygone time spent in waste west land.展开更多
文摘This thesis aims at the elaboration of Willa Cather's pioneering themes based on her major works spanning over the prologue and epilogue of American pioneering age. Among which, O Pioneers! and My Antonia applause for the transcendent glory of innovative and enterprising pioneer ladies, declined in A Lost Lady and My Mortal Enemy and substituted with hedonism, affinity reliance and mammonism. In her late years, Cather resurrected her pioneering themes through the recollection of the best bygone time spent in waste west land.
