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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation"”.
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Exploding anthropocentrism: understanding optical democracy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… I will attempt to synthesize the aesthetic and metaphysical conceptions of optical democracy. While several critics contend that the concept of optical democracy influences all of McCarthy’s novels, I will limit this treatment to Blood Meridian. By focusing one this one text, I will be able …
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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 …