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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"McCarthy"”.
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… 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 experience of …
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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
… 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: the …
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She Keeps (1942), A Charmed Life (1955), and The Group (1963)--in terms of the author's attitude towards femaleness. It confronts Elizabeth Janeway's assessment in Harvard Guide to Contemporary American …
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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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Environmental impact assessment and organisational change in Transport SA & ETSA Corporation / Megan Emma McCarthy.
Develops a framework for evaluating environmental impact assessment (EIA) and organisational change, and examines the influence of the EIA system on two government organisations within South Australia, Transport SA and ETSA . Finally analyses patterns of organisational change process in South …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… 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
… 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 postmodernity …
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ITEM BIAS IN THE MCCARTHY SCALES OF CHILDREN'S ABILITIES FOR ANGLO AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN
… cultural bias in the 46 Verbal items of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA). Two separate approaches to the examination of item bias were utilized. The first approach examined item bias empirically by comparing performance differences in terms of correct item responses given by …
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… British novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the Anthropocene. The question of how to live and write now is a prominent thread in all their works, which show, in both …
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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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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
… of Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Meaninglessness is analysed on a theoretical level in terms of evil. The thrust of the argument is that when approached in the appropriate manner, the dichotomy of good and evil can be transcended. Life can be bestowed with …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
… 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. ‘The …
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