Landscape of Love:A Psychoanalytic Reading of O Pioneers!
LI Wei-ya
Abstract：Willa Cather has few rivals among the American novelists of this century. Her second novel, O Pio?neers!, also the first famous one, is applauded as a splendid celebration of American frontier life. Miss Cather re?sponds to frontier experiences, to the settlers, and to the vastness of the country artistically. The two generations of pioneers on the Divide managed to build an "agrarian Utopia" out of an infertile land which always holds a promise for better life. Alas, when they own a landscape of harvest, their heart remains barren. O Pioneers!, a psy?chological drama of dysfunctional love, will be examined from the perspective of psychoanalysis in this paper in order to reinforce our interpretation of the work, and thereby reveals a pattern of psychological behavior responsi?ble for the"narrative progression".
Keywords：PsychoanalysisLoveO Pioneers!
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 59-61,69 )