Trying the stuff of creation: biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy

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Trying the stuff of creation: biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy

This essay presents an analysis of the religious and philosophical ideas present in the early fiction of the contemporary American writer, Cormac McCarthy. It is intended as an intervention into the controversial debate within McCarthy scholarship concerning how the perceptibly ‘religious’ nature of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thornhill, Christopher John
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Cormac McCarthy Southern Gothic Theology Herman Melville Exodus Blood Meridian Outer Dark Child of God Jewish Thought Benjamin Rosenzweig Rowan Williams
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/

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