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

Creator:

Hagan, Matthew T.

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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―‗Beyond Reckoning‘‖: Cormac McCarthy‘s Version of the West in Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in
Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

Creator:

Schauer, Austin A.

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The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...

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Masters Thesis

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geologic history to human meaning. In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy consistently renders the