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  1. No place for home
    spatial constraint and character flight in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
    Author: Ellis, Jay
    Published: c2006
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Presents interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and socially detached characters. This book talks about how McCarthy's... more

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    Presents interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and socially detached characters. This book talks about how McCarthy's books only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, and expressions of misogynistic fear

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0415977347; 1281082376; 9781281082374; 9781135513368; 9780415977340
    Series: Studies in major literary authors
    Subjects: Families in literature; Men in literature; Setting (Literature); Personal space in literature; Home in literature
    Other subjects: McCarthy, Cormac (1933-); McCarthy, Cormac (1933-)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (ix, 356 p), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-346) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in McCarthy; Chapter Two "Fled, banished in death or exile:" Constraint and Flight in The Orchard Keeper; Chapter Three Unhousing a Child of God; Chapter Four Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son in Outer Dark, Suttree, and Blood Meridian; Chapter Five "What Happens to Country" in Blood Meridian ; Chapter Six From Country to Houses in The Border Trilogy; Chapter Seven Fetish and Collapse in No Country for Old Men; Chapter Eight No Place for Home; Notes

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