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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"All the Pretty Horses"”.
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
… and literature have offered patterns that allow people to acquire an understanding of the individual and his or her role within society as well as the universe. In the three novels of his Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy relies …
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Relocating the Female Body: "Queering" as Routes for Agency
The representation of the female body throughout literature has a complicated history. My thesis attempts to restructure the historical narrative of the female body through a regional narration. The region is a site for collective experience, it allows for different places, spaces, memories, and …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
<p>The moral and aesthetic complexity of Cormac McCarthy's fiction demands sophisticated theoretical reading paradigms. Intertextuality informed by poststructuralism is a theoretical approach that enables one to read the moral and aesthetic elements of McCarthy's work in productive ways. McCarthy's …
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
My thesis examines the discourse of Mexico in the works of three twentieth-century American authors-Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter-in order to analyze representations of Otherness in modernism and postmodernism. I seek to destabilize the dividing line between these periods …
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The Meaning of Pain in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
While the majority of McCarthy’s work graphically depicts brutal violence, it often avoids portrayals of subjective pain. Although his first four novels incorporate descriptions of subjective pain at crucial points in the narrative, in the Border Trilogy, McCarthy overtly elucidates the myriad ways …
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The Meaning of Pain in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
While the majority of McCarthy’s work graphically depicts brutal violence, it often avoids portrayals of subjective pain. Although his first four novels incorporate descriptions of subjective pain at crucial points in the narrative, in the Border Trilogy, McCarthy overtly elucidates the myriad ways …