23 English eng Skaggs, Merrill M. Contributor <p data-start="705" data-end="978">The article compares <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline">Death Comes for the Archbishop</span> by <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline">Willa Cather</span> and <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline">The Sound and the Fury</span> by <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline">William Faulkner</span>, highlighting their contrasting approaches to narrative form, time, and spiritual meaning. It argues that Cather’s novel presents a more linear, episodic, and contemplative structure, emphasizing order, faith, and continuity in the American Southwest. In contrast, Faulkner’s work is fragmented, nonlinear, and psychologically intense, portraying disintegration, moral crisis, and the collapse of traditional Southern values. The study also explores how both authors engage with religion: Cather depicts Catholic faith as a stabilizing and constructive force, while Faulkner presents a more troubled and ambiguous vision of morality and redemption. Ultimately, the article shows that although both works are modernist, they represent two divergent paths: one toward harmony and spiritual coherence, and the other toward fragmentation and existential crisis.</p> The Johns Hopkins University Press Fall 1997/Spring 1998 pdf ISSN 0884-2949 Comparative literature Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" and William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" mixed material The Johns Hopkins University Press