Sacred Violence: A Reader's Companion to Cormac McCarthy : Selected Essays from the First McCarthy Conference, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, October 15-17, 1993Wade Hall, Rick Wallach |
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... meaning finds form as the container's contents , the signifier's meaning , the cave's treasure , the river's fish , the town's citizen , turns out to be a sort of shell trick . Despite McCarthy's elaborate display of the emptiness of ...
... meaning finds form as the container's contents , the signifier's meaning , the cave's treasure , the river's fish , the town's citizen , turns out to be a sort of shell trick . Despite McCarthy's elaborate display of the emptiness of ...
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... meanings of texts . In the cooperation between writer and reader , the reader must determine which contexts to use for ... meaning can dissolve into meaninglessness without some guidance from the writer as to which inferences can most ...
... meanings of texts . In the cooperation between writer and reader , the reader must determine which contexts to use for ... meaning can dissolve into meaninglessness without some guidance from the writer as to which inferences can most ...
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... meaning of these actions . By investing that style itself with the significance of constraint , the author is able to control our reading of the text without violating its apparent cinematic distance . Notes 1. Growing out of early ...
... meaning of these actions . By investing that style itself with the significance of constraint , the author is able to control our reading of the text without violating its apparent cinematic distance . Notes 1. Growing out of early ...
Contents
The Mosaic of McCarthys Fiction | 17 |
The Human Comedy | 49 |
and the Text of Jouissance Nell Sullivan | 115 |
Copyright | |
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