... lessons for the characters involved. Cather truly deserves her place as one of the 20th century's finest American authors. Archbishop is as much a must- read for the artistic aesthete, as it is for those interested in the birth of our nation in the American Southwest. Cather's Archbishop and the "Backward Path" JOHN N. SWIFT My speculations about the structure of Death Comes for the Archbishop, ... narratives of events, which can be analyzed structurally as elaborate sentences: "I walk, Pierre has come, are . . . minimal forms of narrative, and inversely the Odyssey or the Recherche is o...

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