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Projecting Interiority: Psychogenesis and the Composition of Outer Dark 内在投射:心理发生与外在黑暗的构成

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2018-04-11 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.16.1.0002

Dianne C. Luce

引用次数: 40

Existing Without Consent: American History and the Judge in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian 未经同意的存在:科马克·麦卡锡的《血子午线》中的美国历史和法官

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2018-04-11 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.16.1.0073

L. Brown

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In Memoriam: Susan Hawkins (1946–2016) 纪念:苏珊·霍金斯(1946-2016)

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.2.0105

Dianne C. Luce

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“Men are made of the dust of the earth”: Time, Space, Matter, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian “人是由地球的尘埃构成的”:科马克·麦卡锡《血色子午线》中的时间、空间、物质和意义

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.2.0177

Ken R. Hanssen

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Saving Sheriff Bell: Derrida, McCarthy, and the Opening of Mercantile Ethics in No Country for Old Men 拯救贝尔警长:德里达、麦卡锡和《老无所依》中商业伦理的开启

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.2.0152

P. O’Connor

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引用次数: 1

This, Too, Shall Pass: Distant Reading a Future in the Ruins of Cormac McCarthy’s Postsouthern Novels 《这一切都会过去:在科马克·麦卡锡后南方小说的废墟中阅读遥远的未来》

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.2.0107

J. Jackson

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“He could not call to mind his father’s face”: Oedipal Collapse and Literary Decline in the Border Trilogy “他想不起他父亲的脸”:《边境三部曲》中俄狄浦斯的崩溃与文学的衰落

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.2.0128

J. Christie

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Eating and Mourning the Corpse of the World: Ecological Cannibalism and Elegiac Protomourning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 吃和哀悼世界的尸体:科马克·麦卡锡的《路》中的生态食人和哀歌式的原始哀悼

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.1.0066

D. Huebert

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引用次数: 4

“There is no God and we are his prophets”: The Visionary Potential of Memory and Nostalgia in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and The Road “没有上帝，我们是他的先知”:科马克·麦卡锡的《老无所依》和《路》中记忆和怀旧的幻想潜力

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.1.0046

Marie-Reine Pugh

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引用次数: 2

Reverse Engineering Cormac McCarthy’s Sentences 逆向工程科马克·麦卡锡的句子

The Cormac McCarthy Journal Pub Date : 2017-03-17 DOI: 10.5325/CORMMCCAJ.15.1.0088

Lucas Thompson

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