Mythologia Americana - Willa Cather's Nebraska novels and the myth of the frontier

by Bernhard Wenzl

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Sehr gut, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: America's collective memory rests on mythic regions: the planter's South, the Puritan's East, and the pioneer's West. It is the latter which covers a genuinely American experience. For almost three hundred years the westward expansion determined the nation's thought and action. Millions of pioneers were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3640149092
• ISBN13: 9783640149094
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"