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General Resources:
"Short Biography of Willa Cather" from The Willa Cather Foundation
"A Writer's Life" - from Student Companion to Willa Cather by Linda De Roche
"My Ántonia (1918)" - from Student Companion to Willa Cather by Linda De Roche
Interviews and Commentary by Cather on My Ántonia - Joseph R. Urgo
Online Articles:
"Willa Cather, the author of great American Catholic novels—who wasn’t Catholic" by James T. Keane for America Magazine
"Winter reads: My Ántonia by Willa Cather" by Xan Brooks for The Guardian
"Return To The Prairie To Revisit 'My Antonia'" by Bradford Morrow for All Things Considered
"Willa Cather’s “My Antonia”: The Happiness and the Curse" by Carol Leavitt Altieri for Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Videos:
Willa Cather: The Road is All (American Masters), 2005, Dir. Joel Geyer
"American Masters | My Ántonia" from PBS
"The Great American Novel Series: 'My Ántonia' by Willa Cather" from National Association of Scholars
"Mark Schenker discusses My Antonia by Willa Cather" from GuilfordFreeLibrary
"Emmylou Harris & Dave Matthews - My Antonia, Lampedusa Portland OR, 10/4/17"
Podcasts:
"'My Antonia' by Willa Cather w/ Historian Richard Norton Smith" from Books That Shaped America Podcast by C-SPAN
"Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America" from Selected Shorts by Symphony Space
"'My Antonia' by Willa Cather" from Novel Conversations
"In defense of literary flyover country: Peter Slen on Willa Cather's 'My Antonia,' the 1918 novel that captured the ideal of immigrant middle America" from Keen On America
"Episode 316: Willa Cather (with Lauren Marino)" from The History of Literature
"Episode 317: My Antonia by Willa Cather" from The History of Literature
Critical Articles:
"Americanizing Cather: Myth and Fiction in My Ántonia" - Diana H. Polley
"The Drama of Memory in My Ántonia" - Terence Martin.pdf
"'Fire and Wit': Storytelling and the American Artist in Cather's My Ántonia" - Paula Woolley
"The Forgotten Reaping Hook: Sex in My Ántonia" - Blanche H Gelfant
"Frontier Relationships in Willa Cather's My Ántonia" - Claudia Yukman
"Jim, Ántonia, and the Wolves: Displacement in Cather's My Ántonia" - Robin Cohen
"My Ántonia and the Parables of Sacrifice" - Steven B. Shively
"Pastoralism and its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism" - Mike Fischer
"Why Do We Read—and Re-read—My Ántonia?" - Ann Romines
"Willa Cather and The Storyteller: Hostility to the Novel in My Ántonia" - Richard H. Millington
"Willa Cather's My Ántonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory" - Lisa Marie Lucenti
"Within and Against Tradition- Willa Cather's Literary Career" - Linda De Roche
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