{"id":107,"date":"2017-02-02T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-02-02T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T02:05:07","slug":"o-pioneers-review-a-novel-without-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-essays\/o-pioneers-review-a-novel-without-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"O Pioneers review, A Novel Without a Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This review of O Pioneers\u00a0contrasts Cather&#8217;s opinions in Nebraska which applauds the immigrant effect on the frontier and calls it distinctly European, by instead calls O Pioneers &#8220;a tale that is American in the best sense of the word.&#8221; The review does not elaborate on what it means by this, in fact it goes so far as to point out how much the story O Pioneers contradicts the average American&#8217;s aspirations which do not involve back breaking work on the field. One thing the review does observe is that the novel is a feminist piece, and points to Alexandra and Maria as the heroines of the novel in addition to Mother Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review of O Pioneers\u00a0contrasts Cather&#8217;s opinions in Nebraska which applauds the immigrant effect on the frontier and calls it distinctly European, by instead calls O Pioneers &#8220;a tale that is American in the best sense of the word.&#8221; The review does not elaborate on what it means by this, in fact it goes so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}