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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A path to nowhere: Violence, sex, and humor in Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" and "Suttree"
Abstract
dc:description.abstractA Path to Nowhere: Violence, Sex, and Humor in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Suttree discusses some of the uses of three prevalent elements in two of McCarthy's works. Chapter One introduces violence and its importance to his fiction, demonstrating that it is often linked with sex and humor, and it discusses the two novels' lack of closure. Chapter Two describes McCarthy's use of the three elements in Child of God. Chapter Three illustrates his use of the elements in Suttree. Chapter Four concludes the essay by offering some reasons why Child of God and Suttree lack closure.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 1996
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hayes, Justin Cord
Rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/820
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1819