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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"cities of the plain"”.
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Bab edh-Dhra', Numeira, and the Biblical Patriarchs: a Chronological Study
… by archaeologists as possible candidates for two of the biblical cities of the plain, but their existence in the Early Bronze Age III is too early to match the biblical narrative (Gen 19) by many chronologies of ancient Canaan. This study sought to determine if there is sufficient flexibility in …
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Religious and literary motifs in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy
Throughout history, religion 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, …
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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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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 …