Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Antonia

Unlike many other great works of English literature, My Antonia is immediately accessible to today's students. "Cather's novel is so clear," Susan J. Rosowski says, "so apparently effortless, that it hardly seems art at all, and the challenge for instructors is to move their students beyond a surface reading to an understanding of the novel's art and its place in literary history." Yet few instructors have had training in fields relating to Cather studies. The aim of this collection of essays…