... , these characters exhibit a relationship with the land and the people that is both powerful and moving, due in most part to Cather's detailed descriptions and explicit imagery. An example of her beautifully expressed descriptiveness is seen here: "After early Mass the next morning Father Lour and his guide ... the central features of Cather's technique: unusual treatment of narrative time, unexpected focus, ambiguous conclusions, a preference for the bold, simple, and stylized in character as well as in landscape. We can avoid such judgments, though, by taking her at her word, by consid...

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