Cormac McCarthy and the myth of American exceptionalism /

This 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 wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cant, John, 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Colección:Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Temas:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-2023 > Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Exceptionnalisme > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Exceptionalism
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalcharakter
Mythos > Motiv
Kritik
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Personal and literary biography
  • Tennessee background
  • Wake for Susan and A Drowning Incident
  • The orchard keeper
  • Outer dark
  • Child of God
  • Suttree
  • The stonemason
  • The gardener's son
  • Blood meridian
  • All the pretty horses
  • The crossing
  • Cities of the plain
  • No country for old men
  • Conclusion.

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