"Seeing the Rattlesnake in Willa Cather's My Ántonia"

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From: Environmental History
Date: 20050701
Author:Anonymous

Trout, Steven. "seeing the Rattlesnake in Willa Gather's My Ántonia." ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environmentjiz (Winter 2005): 99-114. Examines the scene of Jim Burden's battle with a Prairie Rattlesnake in Willa Gather's 1918 book My Ántonia as an exploration of man's separation from and incomprehension of the world of wild animals.

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