-Immigrants, Pioneers, Europe - Religion spirituality-throughout her life and especially after 1922, Cather was concerned with the decline of spirituality in an increasingly materialistic American society - Nature, Catholicism/Protestantism, Modernism -Missions and Native Americans Death comes for the Archbishop: symbolism and imagery In Death Comes for The Archbishop, Willa Cather demonstrates her unique ability to illustrate exceedingly intricate landscapes with delightfully eloquent prose. ... Willa Cather superbly incorporates both imagery and symbolism to convey these and other significan...

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In Discovering Biography, Capote says, "(As a child) I was very insecure and lonely. ... James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; "He soaked up much of the literary heroines such as Willa Cather-. ... According to Discovering Biography, Miriam typifies Capote's early manners. ... As stated in Discovering Biography, Capote's profound empathy for Perry Smith makes In Cold Blood an authoritative work of art and an inquisitive and admirable attempt to understand the human being. ...

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Number of pages: 259 Type of Book: Fictional Autobiography Biography of Author: Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Louisiana. ... At 15, Gaines moved to Vallejo, California, where he spent hours in the library reading Willa Cather, Turgenev, and Chekhov. ...

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