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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... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy , p.13 . 32. Ibid . p.33 . 33. Ibid . p.235 . The same characteristics are displayed when Johnny Romines speculates on the identity of Rattner's killer : " Reckon it was somebody from around here ...
... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy , p.13 . 32. Ibid . p.33 . 33. Ibid . p.235 . The same characteristics are displayed when Johnny Romines speculates on the identity of Rattner's killer : " Reckon it was somebody from around here ...
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... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy , p.120 . 72. Ibid . p.334 . 73. Ibid . p.118 . 74. Ibid . p.335 . 75. F. Nietzsche , " Of the Higher Man " in Thus Spake Zarathustra [ 1885 ] ( Lon- don : Penguin Classics , 1974 ) , p.305 . 76 ...
... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy , p.120 . 72. Ibid . p.334 . 73. Ibid . p.118 . 74. Ibid . p.335 . 75. F. Nietzsche , " Of the Higher Man " in Thus Spake Zarathustra [ 1885 ] ( Lon- don : Penguin Classics , 1974 ) , p.305 . 76 ...
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... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy ( College Station : Texas A & M University Press , 2004 ) . Hall , W. “ The Human Comedy of Cormac McCarthy , " in Hall & Wallach ( eds ) , Sacred Violence , 2nd . Edn . Vol.1 . pp.59-73 . Hall , W ...
... The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy ( College Station : Texas A & M University Press , 2004 ) . Hall , W. “ The Human Comedy of Cormac McCarthy , " in Hall & Wallach ( eds ) , Sacred Violence , 2nd . Edn . Vol.1 . pp.59-73 . Hall , W ...
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