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Parallel Visions of Our Work in Willa Cather’s Classic ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop’

It’s an ominous title, no? Menacing. Immediate. There’s Death, the Grim Reaper, with his bony fingers extended toward the old cleric in the black cassock, ready to stop his heart and snatch away his very life.

But no. Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop isn’t that kind of book. Set in the American Southwest in the recently annexed territory of …