"The Great Divide": Isolation in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark

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Great Plains Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/gpq.2022.0002

Sophie Farthing

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Abstract:This essay examines the importance of isolation to the self-development of midwestern women in Willa Cather's early novels, O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. Cather employs the natural physical isolation of the Great Plains and the Arizona desert to give her protagonists physical space for their work. Unlike some of Cather's other works, such as My Ántonia, which focus more on the negative effects of physical isolation, Cather offers in these novels a more complicated portrait of isolation's value to women who need independence from their communities in order to explore the widely dissimilar fields of agriculture and opera. While Cather does not shy away from the mental toll of isolation on her characters, she demonstrates the vital role that physical isolation plays in their successful careers.

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“大分水岭”：威拉·凯瑟的《开拓者》中的孤立！和《云雀之歌》

摘要：本文探讨了威拉·凯瑟早期小说《开拓者们！和《云雀之歌》。凯瑟利用大平原和亚利桑那沙漠的自然物理隔离，为主人公的作品提供了物理空间。与凯瑟的其他一些作品不同，如《我的安托尼亚》（MyÁntonia），后者更多地关注身体隔离的负面影响，凯瑟在这些小说中为那些需要独立于社区以探索农业和歌剧领域的女性提供了一幅更为复杂的隔离价值画像。虽然凯瑟并不回避孤立对她的角色造成的精神伤害，但她展示了身体孤立在他们成功的职业生涯中发挥的重要作用。

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Great Plains Quarterly HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region."