... in Santa Fe. Their experiences in these stunning yet uncultivated surroundings cause dramatic changes in both men as they experience the westward movement of the agricultural frontier. The central characters of Father Vaillant, and especially Father Lour, represent the heroic ideal in that they are unmistakably viewed as enjoying a lofty status, yet they still feel genuine concern and ... that 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, cal...

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... (io8). Significantly for the discourse of the English patient, it is only when the "possibility of transgression" becomes inherent in what we would now call "literary" discourse that the Author Function is made a requirement of its dissemination (109). His "transgressions"-of nationality, of identity, of marital arrangements-clearly qualify his ... ? Can there be an understanding of it without a historically locatable author? Or is the map, in this case, the territory? The problem for the characters in The English Patient is how to receive the narrative of this "bogman from history" (96...

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