Narrative Disruption as Animal Agency in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing

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Creator	Malewitz, Raymond
Abstract	This paper asks whether animals can ever break out of anthropocentric value systems in literary narratives and, if so, what critical methods might be enlisted to reveal a literary animal’s independent agency. Examining the representation of a gray wolf in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing, it concludes that the animal’s agency (and, by extension, the agency of all literary animals) emerges when its behavior temporarily exhausts, confuses, or transforms the human use to which it has been put.
Resource Type	Article
DOI	http://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2014.0038
Date Available	2014-10-17T18:41:56+00:00
Date Issued	2014
Citation	Malewitz, R. (2014). Narrative Disruption as Animal Agency in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 60(3), 544-561.
Journal Title	MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
Journal Volume	60
Journal Issue/Number	3
Academic Affiliation	English
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/53020

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