Essays about: "Blood Meridian"

Found 4 essays containing the words Blood Meridian.

1. 1. Satellites in Comparative Literature or How to Rectify the Western : A comparative study of feminist criticism in Blood Meridian and In the Distance

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ulf Anton Waller Kaustinen; [2023]
   Keywords : Blood Meridian; In the Distance; Comparative Literature; Satellite; Satellites; Literary studies; Anti-Westerns; Anti-Westernm Westerns Western; Cormac McCarthy; Hernan Diaz; McCarthy; Diaz; Violence; Masculinity;

   Abstract : In this paper, I argue that novels of the same genre may communicate with each other, spanning time and space to recontextualize the realities of books that both preceeded and came after one another. I use Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Hernan Diaz' In the Distance (2018) to illustrate my theory, focusing on the issues of masculinity presentet in both novels. READ MORE

3. 2. Things in Blood Meridian A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Look

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Charles Simmons; [2014]
   Keywords : HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Languages and Literature;

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4. 3. Shut in or Exposed - Inhospitable Landscapes in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Lovisa Eklund; [2013]
   Keywords : Joseph Conrad; Cormac McCarthy; landscapes; wilderness; nature; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) are two novels that take place in the 19th century. They both have a protagonist who sets out on a journey to a place that he does not know much about, which involves travelling through wild, unfamiliar landscapes. READ MORE

5. 4. “Some third and other destiny” : The Unresolved Dialectic of Agency in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Fredrik Svensson; [2011]
   Keywords : Cormac McCarthy; Blood Meridian; Marxism;

   Abstract : Many critics have conceded that Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is an ambiguous novel; however, the very same critics have often argued also that the novel’s contradictions are eventually resolved. It will be argued in this essay that the multiplicity of McCarthy’s text primarily regards a problematic of agency—a question as to whether or not humanity is a force to be reckoned with in the world. READ MORE