Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American ExceptionalismThis overview of McCarthy's published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America's vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication. |
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John Cant. His son , Big Ben , cannot match his father's pride in work and does not find it possible to exist in the world as a man of business without compromising the old man's perfectionist values . To Big Ben the " name on the paper ...
John Cant. His son , Big Ben , cannot match his father's pride in work and does not find it possible to exist in the world as a man of business without compromising the old man's perfectionist values . To Big Ben the " name on the paper ...
Page 128
John Cant. Big Ben succumbs to his sense of alienation . His espousal of values that completely contradict those of his father results in debts , incurred for unspecified purposes . His pride is destroyed by the knowledge that his ...
John Cant. Big Ben succumbs to his sense of alienation . His espousal of values that completely contradict those of his father results in debts , incurred for unspecified purposes . His pride is destroyed by the knowledge that his ...
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... BIG BEN Shit . What did you say ? Soldier mutters something that no one can hear . Big Ben reaches down the table and takes a swipe at him . Soldier ducks and the chair goes to the floor . Big Ben stands up to deal with him further and ...
... BIG BEN Shit . What did you say ? Soldier mutters something that no one can hear . Big Ben reaches down the table and takes a swipe at him . Soldier ducks and the chair goes to the floor . Big Ben stands up to deal with him further and ...
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