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“Things happen to you they happen”: Cormac McCarthy, Morality, and Neo-Naturalism “发生在你身上的事就会发生”:科马克·麦卡锡，《道德与新自然主义
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.18.1.0056
A. Gibbs
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引用次数: 2
“Dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you?”: An Exploration of the Ending in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road “梦想如此丰富多彩。不然死亡会怎么召唤你?——对科马克·麦卡锡《路》结尾的探索
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.18.1.0026
Jacob M. Powning
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引用次数: 1
Drawing a Blank: Illustrating “the kid” in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian 画一片空白:描绘科马克·麦卡锡的《血色子午线》中的“孩子”
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.18.1.0003
C. Warren
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引用次数: 0
Death and the Search for Heideggerian Authenticity in No Country for Old Men 《老无所依》中死亡与海德格尔真实性的探寻
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.18.1.0037
G. Phipps
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引用次数: 1
Ballard Rising in Outer Dark: The Genesis and Early Composition of Child of God 在外黑暗中升起的巴拉德:《上帝之子》的起源与早期创作
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0087
Dianne C. Luce
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引用次数: 1
"Nothingness is not a curse": Suttree's Absurd Revolt “虚无不是诅咒”:萨特里的荒诞反抗
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0148
E. Guerra
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引用次数: 0
"He wondered why a road should come to such a place": Community and Posthumanism in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark “他想知道为什么一条路会到达这样一个地方”:科马克·麦卡锡《外层黑暗》中的社区与后人文主义
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0116
J. Elmore, Rick Elmore
{"title":"\"He wondered why a road should come to such a place\": Community and Posthumanism in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark","authors":"J. Elmore, Rick Elmore","doi":"10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0116","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:There is wide scholarly agreement that Outer Dark is, by and large, a tale whose nihilism and ambiguities offer little philosophical or anthropological insight beyond a masterful rumination on the darkly paradoxical nature of human existence. While such interpretations are compelling, a careful reading of the novel's central theme of incest shows that Outer Dark offers an alternative, productive account of human nature and community. More specifically, McCarthy's text explores the ways in which community formation requires an always violent logic of inclusion and exclusion, this logic creating the very bodies and communities it claims merely to classify. This power to create bodies and communities shows that, for McCarthy, the possibility for human difference, for humans to be something new, remains always in play. Hence, our article concludes that in the figure of Rinthy, McCarthy gives us an alternative conception of human life, a proto-posthumanism that might offer a way through the totalizing and dehumanizing structures of modern society.","PeriodicalId":126318,"journal":{"name":"The Cormac McCarthy Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131030454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Desert Gothic: Cormac McCarthy, Paul Bowles, and Don Waters 沙漠哥特式:科马克·麦卡锡，保罗·鲍尔斯和唐·沃特斯
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0171
Nicholas Monk
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引用次数: 0
"You reckon there are just some places the good lord didn't intend folks to live in?": The Absence of Community in McCarthy's Child of God “你认为有些地方是上帝不希望人们住的吗?”麦卡锡的《上帝之子》缺少社区
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.17.2.0134
J. Elmore, Rick Elmore
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引用次数: 2
A Bibliography of Cormac McCarthy’s Works in Translation 科马克·麦卡锡翻译作品参考书目
The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2019-04-15 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.17.1.0043
Béatrice Trotignon
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引用次数: 35
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