| Description |
xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Literature and belief ; 22
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| Contents |
Cover story / Charlette Elm -- Cycles of retribution and dreams of grace / Charles A. Peek -- Faith statements and nonstatements in Willa Cather's personal letters / Janis P. Stout -- The jumping-off place: Facing death in "'A death in the desert'" / Kari A. Ronning -- Religion and ecology on the divide: Ivar's monasticism in O Pioneers! / Matthias Schubnell -- My Antonia and the parables of sacrifice / Steven B. Shively -- The religious architecture of The Professor's house and Death comes for the Archbishop / Ann Moseley -- "Why must I die like this"? "Last things" in My mortal enemy / Jo Ann Middleton -- Death comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather's varieties of religious experience / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Philosophical pragmatism and theological temperament: The religious and the miraculous in Death comes for the Archbishop / Patrick K. Dooley -- Willa Cather's Archbishop: The legible forms of spirituality / Charles W. Mignon -- New world epiphany stories: Transformation and community-building in Shadows on the rock / Evelyn I. Funda -- Building the house of faith: "Hard punishments," the plan and the fragment / John J. Murphy -- Willa Cather after all / Marilyn Arnold -- Grappling with complexities: Some recent Cather scholarship / Elizabeth A. Turner, Anne L. Kaufman, John P. Anders, Kevin A. Synnott, Bruce P. Baker II, Stephen L. Tanner, Mark A. Robison. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Religion.
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Murphy, John J. (John Joseph), 1933-
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| ISBN |
0842525335 (pbk.) |
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9780842525336 (pbk.) |
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