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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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Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy's novels are thought experiments in what it might mean to write posthuman works of fiction. In a close reading of three of his novels, Child of God, The Crossing, and The Road , this project reveals how McCarthy's stories paradoxically unravel the dangerous human desire to make of …
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Virtue in the tragic vision of Cormac McCarthy.
Cormac McCarthy's novels evoke a more complex perspective than many conventional descriptions—e.g., redemptive or nihilistic, modern or postmodern—allow. Focusing primarily on his Western novels, I demonstrate in contrast that the author's vision is essentially tragic. This vision rejects hopes in …
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Searching for a moral center in Cormac McCarthy.
In an examination of critical responses to Cormac McCarthy's fiction, two opposing viewpoints emerge. Many critics, such as Vereen Bell, interpret McCarthy's fictional world as a nihilistic one. Edwin Arnold, however, rejects this approach and contends that McCarthy's fiction possesses a distinctly …
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
… Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy relies upon specific literary motifs that enable his reader to the greater truths he offers. Although McCarthy utilizes many patterns found in religion and literature of the past, three highly significant patterns in his trilogy are: …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
<p>This thesis reads the novels of Cormac McCarthy as posthuman southern literature to explain why fiction from the South after World War II could no longer convey a sense of place during postmodernity: that is, because the region's culture and economy were transitioning from predominantly …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… fictional Mississippi. My final chapter analyses Cormac McCarthy’s fiction and his violent revisions of Scott’s border narratives.
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
… 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 as well as to show how representation in …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… that inaction is sometimes the best plan. Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men highlights how a combination of action and inaction, depending on the situation, can help or hurt someone when violence surrounds them.</p>
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
… to educate us,’ is a provocative theory posed by Cormac McCarthy in his recent work of non-fiction, the Kekulé Problem. He suggests that, for several million years — long pre-dating the arrival of complex language — the unconscious has performed a biological function in guiding us on how to live. …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… four literary authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional existentialism of their creators. …
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Lucille excerpts
… The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book Wonderbook: The Illustrative Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer to analyze how setting and character form worldbuilding within the three chosen …
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, John O'Hara and other American writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. The collection is prefaced by an introduction …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… in select works from authors Kate Chopin to Cormac McCarthy whose writing frames a period of just over one hundred years, in order to discern if the cultural myth of the pastoral shifts or remains static. This is achieved by highlighting the contrast between the expectations and real …
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Moving Rhizomatically: Deleuze's Child in 21st Century American Literature and Film
… Cameron, Sara Prichard, Michael Cunningham, and Cormac McCarthy, whose work has received little or no attention at all—a lacuna in research that exists perhaps due to these artists’ innovative approach to a minor literature that promotes the notion of a machinic self and questions the dominant …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… in the Dark (Paul Auster, 2008) and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006), and four films: A History of Violence (d. David Cronenberg, 2005), In the Valley of Elah (d. Paul Haggis, 2007), 25th Hour (d. Spike Lee, 2002) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (d. Michel Gondry, 2004). All of these …
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A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… recovery of the self. Fourthly, I contend that Cormac McCarthy's fiction and essays develop a meditation on a generative kind of chaos, and this vision opens up helpful and difficult questions about the agency of God and man. Lastly, I illuminate the fiction of Anthony Doerr in an attempt to …
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