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Murphy, John Joseph was born on April 3, 1933 in New York City. Son of John and Margaret B. (Shadegg) Murphy.
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Book by Byu Cather Symposium (1988 Brigham Young University), Murphy, John J., Adams, Linda Hunter, Rawlins, Paul
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Contents: Cover story / Charlette Elm -- Cycles of retribution and dreams of grace / Charles A. Peek -- Faith statements and nonstatements in Willa Cather's personal letters / Janis P. Stout -- The jumping-off place: Facing death in "'A death in the desert'" / Kari A. Ronning -- Religion and ecology on the divide: Ivar's monasticism in O Pioneers! / Matthias Schubnell -- My Antonia and the parables of sacrifice / Steven B. Shively -- The religious architecture of The Professor's house and Death comes for the Archbishop / Ann Moseley -- "Why must I die like this"? "Last things" in My mortal enemy / Jo Ann Middleton -- Death comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather's varieties of religious experience / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Philosophical pragmatism and theological temperament: The religious and the miraculous in Death comes for the Archbishop / Patrick K. Dooley -- Willa Cather's Archbishop: The legible forms of spirituality / Charles W. Mignon -- New world epiphany stories: Transformation and community-building in Shadows on the rock / Evelyn I. Funda -- Building the house of faith: "Hard punishments," the plan and the fragment / John J. Murphy -- Willa Cather after all / Marilyn Arnold -- Grappling with complexities: Some recent Cather scholarship / Elizabeth A. Turner, Anne L. Kaufman, John P. Anders, Kevin A. Synnott, Bruce P. Baker II, Stephen L. Tanner, Mark A. Robison -- Biographical sketches.
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"My Antonia: The Road Home" provides an informative and thoughtful discussion of Cather's celebration of the heroic efforts of American pioneers. In an exhaustive textual analysis, John J. Murphy examines the literary and artistic influences on Cather's greatest work.
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Murphy, John Joseph was born on April 3, 1933 in New York City. Son of John and Margaret B. (Shadegg) Murphy.
Bachelor, St. John's University, New York City, 1956. Master of Arts, St. John's University, New York City, 1961.
Instructor English literature College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, 1960-1965. Assistant professor English literature Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, 1965-1968, associate professor, 1969-1984, chairman department English, 1974—1976, 1979—1982. Professor English literature Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1984—2005, professor emeritus, since 2005, chair American literature section department English, 1986—1989, associate director Center for Study Christian Values in Literature, 1994—2004.
Organizer and director Willa Cather and Nebraska 1st International University Nebraska Cather Seminar, Hastings and Red Cloud, Nebraska, 1981. Board governors Willa Cather Memorial, since 1984. Member editorial board Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, University Nebraska Press, since 1986.
Visiting professor University Leon, Spain, 2001, University Santiago, Spain, 2003, University Rome 3, 2005. Co-director Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds, 11th International Cather Seminar, Paris and Provence, France, 2007. Presenter in field.
("My Antonia: The Road Home" provides an informative and t...)
(Contents: Cover story / Charlette Elm -- Cycles of retrib...)
(Book by Byu Cather Symposium (1988 Brigham Young Universi...)
With United States Army, 1958-1960.
Married Sarah Marie McMahon, June 30, 1962. Children: Sarah, Joseph, Willa, John, Emily.
