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Loveland Museum/Gallery exhibit to celebrate Willa Cather

ReporterHerald.com - Jan 6, 2012
For details about special Willa Cather programming, visit http://ci.loveland.co.us and click on "Portraits of the Prairie." Nearly 100 years ago, Willa Cather introduced readers to the beauty of the Nebraska prairie through her richly woven words.

Townsend talks about struggle for statehood

Alamogordo Daily News - Jan 25, 2012
... Morley Cleveland; "Indeh" by Eve Ball; and "Death Comes for the Archbishop" by Willa Cather. "We were fortunate to have the Townsends here for our centennial celebration," Manuelita Salgado, the Alamogordo Table director, said after the program.

Bringing history to life

Enid News & Eagle - Jan 18, 2012
Conner first was introduced to Chautauqua during a dramatic portrayal of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather in about 1989. “I was just blown away by how realistic it was,” Conner said. “That scholar could answer any questions the audience fired ...

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The Professor's House

by: Cather Willa
Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of the way life used to be. After a gas leak, causing a near death experience, that he almost welcomed, he realizes that he needs to find a new way to cope.
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My Antonia

by: Willa Cather
Set on the Nebraska prairie of the 1880s, My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, daughter of a Bohemian immigrant.Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and admirer, we follow Ántonia's struggles and triumphs in the face of life's relentless hardships.
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O Pioneers!

by: Willa Cather
This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra's lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American frontier.
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Society and Culture Bundle RC: Bodies That Matter: On the discursive limits of "sex"

by: Judith Butler

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics.
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