caa a22 4500 386309930 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006694 doi S0361233300006694 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006694 Horwitz Howard O Pioneers! and the Paradox of Property: Cather's Aesthetics of Divestment [Elektronische Daten] [Howard Horwitz] O Pioneers! begins with the wind, which is threatening to blow away Hanover, Nebraska, a little town serving homestead settlements. On their return to the Bergson homestead, Alexandra, her brother Emil, and their neighbor Carl Linstrum pass homesteads, whose sod houses, lowslung shelters made of the land itself, crouch in hollows to survive the elements, their very materials denoting their subjection to nature. "The great fact was the land itself,” "a wild thing that had its ugly moods; and no one knew when they were likely to come, or why,” only that "the land wanted ... to preserve its own fierce strength.” Nature's unpredictable impulses to self-preservation "overwhelm[ed] the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its somber wastes.” In this novel, then, Willa Cather introduces the relation between nature and culture within the sublime tradition, in which the experience of nature discloses the limits of human faculties and threatens their health and continuance. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 61-93 0361-2333 13<61 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006694 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006694 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Horwitz Howard NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 61-93 0361-2333 13<61 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge