... They tend not to produce normative evaluations based on the characteristics of narrative's dominant modern Western form, the "realistic novel": credible "psychological" characterization, realistic treatment of time, causal plotting, logical closure. A nonprescriptive criticism taking as its object "narrative" rather than "the novel" seems to me exactly appropriate to ... ideas and people who travel through the arid, beautiful dreamscape of New Mexico. Ms. Cather wrote part of this novel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She got the idea of the novel from seeing a statue of Archbishop Lamy in fron...

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