My Antonia. Question #9 Willa Cather’s novel, My Antonia, is set in the early twentieth century in the frontier town of Black Hawk, Nebraska. Cather’s story is often praised for its pastoral depiction of life on the American frontier and for the diverse, hardworking people who settled it. As the young Jimmy Burden notice while traveling across the plains, “There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made (Cather p.14).” In My Antonia, many of Cather’s
Adaptations Studies The consistent musicality of Sherlock Holmes on the screen is remarkable considering the diversity of adaptations. Compared to the three other most often adapted literary figures (Count Dracula, Tarzan, and Frankenstein’s monster), Sherlock Holmes is the lone musician, one moreover associated with iconic props: his violin, pipe, hat and coat. Although Doyle consistently relies on these identity-anchoring props, the stories of the Canon are hardly unified. The narrative tone
Studies 27.1/2 (2008): 3-10. Humanities Source. Web. 21 July 2015. Briggs begins by accessing the literature and works of Doris Lessing by comparing the nature of them to violence and war. Due to the time of Lessing’s birth and location, the author notes the influence of her environment in her writing. An occurring theme that Briggs finds interesting about Doris is her claim of being involved in a war she never really experienced. Therefore the author classifies Lessing as a child of violence. Briggs