Some Titles Towards Close Reading

59—“The Error from the Surveyed Lines”: Mr. Shimerda’s Grave and the Intentional Swerve of Historical Memory

 

69—“Why aren’t you always nice like this, Tony”: Jim’s Dream of a Bohemian Still Life

 

106—A Town of “Evasions and Negations”: Black Hawk and Jim’s Evolving Identity

 

109—The Kiss and the Reaping Hook: Jim’s Dream of Lena (later 129)

 

118—“A Curious Thing”: Inscribing Experience (also 125)

 

123—“Curious Survivals”: The Role of the Past in Jim’s Present

 

126—“The first to bring the muse into my country”: Jim, Cather, and the Writing of the Frontier

 

133—Jim and the Enduring Idea of the Frontier: Art and the Communication of the Incommunicable

 

139: “too many children, a cross man, and work piling up”: domestic contrast in My Antonia

 

152—Sweetheart or Wife, Mother or Sister: Who is Antonia to Jim?

 

152—Sun and Moon: Indelible Images in My Antonia

 

153 and 167—Leaving Images in the Mind: How Antonia Lives for Jim

 

174—Hunting with Cuzak’s Boys: Jim’s Alternate Life in the West of his Imagination

 

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