Essays about: "cormac mccarthy"

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  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. Ethics after the Apocalypse : Teaching Right and Wrong through and Analysis of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Rim Winssi; [2023]
    Keywords : Cormac McCarthy; The Road; Ethics; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Ethics; Swedish National Agency of Education; English; Philosophy; Upper-secondary school;

    Abstract : In our world and our modern society, we have laws, ethics, morality, and religion that guide us, teaching us the basic principles of what is right and what is wrong, and what is good and what is bad. However, what would happen if all of these guides suddenly cease to exist? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is exactly what happens. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Story Without Names: The Function of Nameless Characters in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Theodor Myrestrand; [2020]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  5. 4. “Just a Coin” : Genre in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Beatrice Näsling; [2019]
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  6. 5. Sublime Extinctions in Anthropocene Fiction: Literary representations of geologic force in works by Ballard, McCarthy and Watkins

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Samuel Teeland; [2018]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Extinction; Sublime; J.G. Ballard; Cormac McCarthy; Claire Vaye Watkins; Languages and Literatures; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay examines representations of extinction in a selection of Anthropocene fiction. The Anthropocene is a potential new geological epoch, in which the human species capacity for massive ecological transformation is rivalling that of geologic processes. READ MORE