Further Reading
- "A review of Death Comes for the Archbishop," New Republic, 52 (26 October 1927): 266-67. (Praises Cather's novel as “a book which will remain an American classic.”)
- Byatt, A. S., "Willa Cather," in Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings, Turtle Bay Books, 1992, pp. 197-216. (Discusses Cather's major works, including Death Comes for the Archbishop.)
- Crane, Joan St.C., "Willa Cather's Corrections in the Text of Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 to 1945," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 74 (1980): 117-31. (Comprehensive list of Cather's corrections and changes to Death Comes for the Archbishop between the time of its serialization and its publication in book form.)
- Gale, Robert L., "Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop," Explicator, 21 (May 1963): 75-6. (Compares the tone and structure of Death Comes for the Archbishop with the symbol of the Angelus bell that rings in the novel.)
- Keeler, Clinton, "Narrative without Accent: Willa Cather and Puvis de Chavannes," American Quarterly, XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1965): 119-26. (Provides a detailed examination of the frescoes that inspired Cather to write Death Comes for the Archbishop in order to discover whether her work constitutes an avoidance of concrete reality.)
- Schneider, Sister Lucy, C.S.J., "Cather's ‘Land-Philosophy’ in Death Comes for the Archbishop," Renascence, XXII, No. 2 (Winter 1970): 78-86. (Examines the symbolism of the land in Death Comes for the Archbishop.)
- Stouck, Mary-Ann, "Chaucer's Pilgrims and Cather's Priests," Colby Library Quarterly, IX, No. 10 (June 1971): 531-37. (Traces the major influences for Death Comes for the Archbishop to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.)
- Stouck, Mary-Ann, and David Stouck, "Hagiographical Style in Death Comes for the Archbishop," University of Toronto Quarterly, (Summer 1972): 293-307. (Examines the purpose and meaning of Cather's use of the traditional style of saints's life stories in Death Comes for the Archbishop.)
- Woodress, James, "The Genesis of the Prologue of Death Comes for the Archbishop," American Literature, I, No. 3 (November 1978): 473-78. (Argues that Cather's prologue to Death Comes for the Archbishop was inspired by a painting by Jehan George Vibert.)
- Woodress, James, "Willa Cather: A Literary Life," University of Nebraska Press, 1987, 583 p. (Illustrated biography that contains a chapter on Death Comes for the Archbishop.)
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