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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"The Border Trilogy"”.
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Knowing his place : How Welsh are the "Border" trilogy of novels by Raymond Williams?
Published in the years from 1960 to 1979, the novels of Raymond Williams’ ‘Border’ or ‘Welsh’ trilogy explore and reveal his changing feelings for, and responses to, his Welsh border background, both the physical landscape and the community. This dissertation examines how, for Williams, the novels …
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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 …
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“War is God” and “Unguessed Kinships”: Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Tetralogy”
<p>This thesis applies the metaphysics of philosopher Gilles Deleuze to Cormac McCarthy’s novel <em>Blood Meridian</em>, arguing that the novel initiates a thread of immanent subjectivity that unfolds throughout the Border Trilogy that follows it. Against a hierarchical metaphysics of …
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The myth of masculinity in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
This thesis sees Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy as a celebration of the nostalgia and romance characteristic of the Western and the attendant mythologies of masculinity that the genre implies. My argument runs counter to readings of McCarthy’s texts that view them as revising or querying the …
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
… 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 upon specific literary motifs that enable his …
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“For He Contained Within Him a Largenesss Of Spirit:” The Duality of Billy’s Spirit, The Hope for Humanity in Cormac Mccarthy’s Border Trilogy
<p>This paper focuses on the contradictory merging of the differentiating forces that drive the natural world and the people in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, with the most prominent being Billy’s persistent naïve view of the world as he grows from a boy to a man on his journey. The Border Trilogy …
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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 …