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Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Creator:

Hagan, Matthew T.

Abstract:

In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis