Death Comes for the Archbishop | Losing Nothing, Comprehending Everything: Learning to Read Both the Old World and The New In Death Comes for the Archbishop
In the following essay, Williams explores how Cather uses aural and visual tropes to connect the Old World with the New in Death Comes for the Archbishop.
In her 1927 letter to Commonweal, written to explain how she wrote Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather indirectly offered a possible interpretation for the novel itself: “I used to wish there were some written account of the old times when those churches were built; but I soon felt that no record of them could be as real as they are themselves. They are their own story, and it is foolish convention that we must have everything interpreted for us in written language” (emphasis mine). In Death Comes for the Archbishop, Cather attempts to bring...
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