... it is not a novel. Myself, I prefer to call it a narrative" (On Writing 12). Cather's preference anticipated an important reformulation of the criticism of fiction: the body of literary theory, called "narratology," articulated in the 1960s by French structuralist writers. Narratology's purpose, according to Gerard Genette, is to provide ... , this is a book about the beauty of a life lived well, with hard work and faith, and the land which touches all who touch it. In Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, the heroic ideal whose definition began with Moby-Dick is again viewed. F...

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