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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Page 84
... passage in which Culla encounters the great herd of hogs as they are swept off the bluff by their own momentum , tak- ing a drover with them . This is a characteristic McCarthy literary tour de force , spread over two pages of the most ...
... passage in which Culla encounters the great herd of hogs as they are swept off the bluff by their own momentum , tak- ing a drover with them . This is a characteristic McCarthy literary tour de force , spread over two pages of the most ...
Page 268
... passage illustrates the same point : He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the ... passages convey the atmosphere of the novel as a whole . The " two hunted animals " are a father and son , cast adrift ...
... passage illustrates the same point : He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the ... passages convey the atmosphere of the novel as a whole . The " two hunted animals " are a father and son , cast adrift ...
Page 331
... passage McCarthy expresses some of his habitual concerns ; the relation between culture and the material world ; the ... passages such as these . 8. Ibid . p.110 . Faulkner uses the same technique to place in the consciousness of ...
... passage McCarthy expresses some of his habitual concerns ; the relation between culture and the material world ; the ... passages such as these . 8. Ibid . p.110 . Faulkner uses the same technique to place in the consciousness of ...
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