SOURCE: “Willa Cather's Archbishop: A Western and Classical Perspective,” in Western American Literature, Vol. XIII, No. 2, Summer, 1978, pp. 141-50.
In the following essay, Murphy maintains that Cather's view of history in Death Comes for the Archbishop is “cyclical” in that the heroic archetypes of the American West repeat those of the classical literature of Europe and ancient Greece.
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