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
In this thesis,compared with pioneer ladies,Alexandra and Antonia,the lost ladies Mrs.Forrest and Myra Henshawe worshipped mammonism as its slaves,hypocritical Christians rather than devoted disciples,unbuttoned hedon...In this thesis,compared with pioneer ladies,Alexandra and Antonia,the lost ladies Mrs.Forrest and Myra Henshawe worshipped mammonism as its slaves,hypocritical Christians rather than devoted disciples,unbuttoned hedonists rather than weather-beaten and down-to-earth innovators.Cynically fear of poverty,those depraved ladies elegized the previous ostenta tious years contrasted to those industrious pioneers of anti-temptation,immune to hedonism and materialism,and died nameless ly,a symbol of decadence of the pioneering age.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.
文摘In this thesis,compared with pioneer ladies,Alexandra and Antonia,the lost ladies Mrs.Forrest and Myra Henshawe worshipped mammonism as its slaves,hypocritical Christians rather than devoted disciples,unbuttoned hedonists rather than weather-beaten and down-to-earth innovators.Cynically fear of poverty,those depraved ladies elegized the previous ostenta tious years contrasted to those industrious pioneers of anti-temptation,immune to hedonism and materialism,and died nameless ly,a symbol of decadence of the pioneering age.
